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Get company ticker symbol / code from name in Python
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| import requests | |
| def getTicker (company_name): | |
| url = "https://s.yimg.com/aq/autoc" | |
| parameters = {'query': company_name, 'lang': 'en-US'} | |
| response = requests.get(url = url, params = parameters) | |
| data = response.json() | |
| company_code = data['ResultSet']['Result'][0]['symbol'] | |
| return company_code |
Unfortunately, it returns now 403 Client Error: Forbidden for this url.
Created a new gist which will get this working again. Same code pretty much just using a different Yahoo finance endpoint.
(My username was changed from "bruhbruhroblox" to "leftmove")
Awesome dude! I'll link it up there and credit you.
It does not longer work to me unfortunately @bruhbruhroblox
Hi everyone, it seems that changing my username caused my linked gist to stop working.
@0x4f53 If you can, please link the new gist with the new link.
https://gist.github.com/leftmove/dd9d981c8c37983f61e423a45085e063
I had to change my username as I created it when I was young. Sorry for the incoveinence!
Done, we all do things we find silly as we grow up 🙃
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This gist doesn't work anymore. Use this one instead (credits: @leftmove).
Most tutorials online are to get a company's name from its ticker symbol (for example, supplying TSLA returns Tesla Corporation). This function does the opposite operation, where supplying 'Tesla Corporation' returns TSLA.
sample:
getTicker('Texas Instruments')This is done by making a GET request to the Yahoo! Finance API.