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')