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Nimmy
Nimmy

Reputation: 5371

Stock Symbols using python

I am looking for some stock symbol look-up API. I could able to query yahoo finance with a symbol & could able to retrieve the stock price & other details.

Is there any API for stock symbol searches

Any help would be great ..

Thanks

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3098

Answers (3)

Eugene Osovetsky
Eugene Osovetsky

Reputation: 6541

Take a look at the Company Fundamentals API at http://www.mergent.com/servius

Upvotes: 0

dmi
dmi

Reputation: 1916

As an alternative to parsing the HTML you could be downloading a clean pre-formatted .csv file. See the tutorial at http://www.gummy-stuff.org/Yahoo-data.htm. Found it in the question awatts linked to.

Upvotes: 1

awatts
awatts

Reputation: 1067

You could use Python's urllib or the mechanise library to scrape the data from a website which publishes this data. Mechanise would be a better choice if the website requires some interaction before you can get hold of the data (like logging in).

EDIT - for getting stock quote for BT from Yahoo's UK site:

>>> import urllib
>>> import re
>>> data = urllib.urlopen('http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=BT&m=L&d=').read()
>>> re.search('<span id="yfs_l10_bt-a\.l".*?>([0-9.]+)', data).group(1)
'122.00'

The id in the regular expression was taken by viewing the source of the page and finding the id of the tag that surrounded the data required.

Upvotes: 2

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