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leftmove / ticker.py

Last active May 29, 2024 21:10

Company name to ticker using Yahoo Finance API endpoint

	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