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Company name to ticker using Yahoo Finance API endpoint
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| def get_ticker(company_name): | |
| yfinance = "https://query2.finance.yahoo.com/v1/finance/search" | |
| user_agent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/108.0.0.0 Safari/537.36' | |
| params = {"q": company_name, "quotes_count": 1, "country": "United States"} | |
| res = requests.get(url=yfinance, params=params, headers={'User-Agent': user_agent}) | |
| data = res.json() | |
| company_code = data['quotes'][0]['symbol'] | |
| return company_code |
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@bruhbruhroblox Good catch! It's really helpful for me as well. I also tried to get ticker symbol from company name using OpenFIGI, FinHub, IEXCloud etc, but couldn't get correct symbols what I wanted to. it returns perfect ones. 👍