Retrieve company name with ticker symbol input, yahoo or google API

Question

Just looking for a simple api return, where I can input a ticker symbol and receive the full company name:

ticker('MSFT') will return "Microsoft"

Answer 1

import yfinance as yf

msft = yf.Ticker("MSFT")

company_name = msft.info['longName']

#Output = 'Microsoft Corporation'

So this way you would be able to get the full names of companies from stock symbols

Answer 2

You need to first find a website / API which allows you to lookup stock symbols and provide information. Then you can query that API for information.

I came up with a quick and dirty solution here:

import requests


def get_symbol(symbol):
    symbol_list = requests.get("http://chstocksearch.herokuapp.com/api/{}".format(symbol)).json()

    for x in symbol_list:
        if x['symbol'] == symbol:
            return x['company']


company = get_symbol("MSFT")

print(company)

This website only provides company name. I didn't put any error checks. And you need the requests module for it to work. Please install it using pip install requests.

Update: Here's the code sample using Yahoo! Finance API:

import requests


def get_symbol(symbol):
    url = "http://d.yimg.com/autoc.finance.yahoo.com/autoc?query={}&region=1&lang=en".format(symbol)

    result = requests.get(url).json()

    for x in result['ResultSet']['Result']:
        if x['symbol'] == symbol:
            return x['name']


company = get_symbol("MSFT")

print(company)

Answer 3

Using fuzzy match to get company symbol from company name or vice versa

from fuzzywuzzy import process
import requests

def getCompany(text):
    r = requests.get('https://api.iextrading.com/1.0/ref-data/symbols')
    stockList = r.json()
    return process.extractOne(text, stockList)[0]


getCompany('GOOG')
getCompany('Alphabet')

Answer 4

Here's another Yahoo API call. @masnun's call will return all results that contain the search param, for example trying AMD (Advanced Micro Devices): http://d.yimg.com/autoc.finance.yahoo.com/autoc?query=amd&region=1&lang=en gives you AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.), AMDA (Amedica Corporation), DOX (Amdocs Limited), etc.

If you know the ticker, you can try either of these Yahoo APIs:z http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=amd&f=nb4t8 (well documented, this particular call asks for n=name; b4=book value; t8=1yr target price). https://query2.finance.yahoo.com/v7/finance/options/amd (not very well documented but new...see more info here about this API: https://stackoverflow.com/a/40243903/933972)

Forgot to include the Google API, which seems ok for stock quotes, but not reliable for full data on option chains: 'https://www.google.com/finance?q=nyse:amd&output=json'

Answer 5

For anyone wondering how to get the stock price of a company using its name rather than its symbol

import yfinance as yf

def getStock(search_term):
    results = []
    query = requests.get(f'https://yfapi.net/v6/finance/autocomplete?region=IN&lang=en&query={search_term}', 
    headers={
        'accept': 'application/json',
        'X-API-KEY': 'API_KEY'
    })
    response = query.json()
    for i in response['ResultSet']['Result']:
        final = i['symbol']
        results.append(final)

    try:
        stock = yf.Ticker(results[0])
        price = stock.info["regularMarketPrice"]
        full_name = stock.info['longName']
        curreny = stock.info["currency"]
    except Exception as e:
        print('Something went wrong')

return f"The stock price of {full_name} is {price} {curreny}"

stock = input("Enter the company's name: ")
final = getStock(stock)
print(final)

Output:

Enter the company's name: Apple
The stock price of Apple Inc. is 172.39 USD

Answer 6

I use Quandl for prices, so when I had a similar issue I decided to check there. If you go to https://www.quandl.com/data/EOD-End-of-Day-US-Stock-Prices/documentation about a quarter of the way down under Available Tickers there is a link to download a csv file containing names and tickers. I then use the following code to create a dictionary with ticker as key and name a value.

def companyNames():
    cnames = pd.read_csv('ticker_list.csv')
    cnames_dict = pd.Series(cnames.Name.values, index=cnames.Ticker).to_dict()
    
    return cnames_dict