Is there an API for finding brand-based characters?

Question

This is a similar question with the Stock Ticker symbol search API , but the standard that I think is necessary for a commercial application has never been answered by that standard.

The problem is this: Given the company name, partial name or stock symbol, return a list of possible symbol matches.

So for example:

"microsoft" => "MSFT", "...", ... "aapl" => "AAPL", "...", ... "goo" => "GOOG", "...", ... 

I used "..." to indicate another result of secondary importance.

The question I linked was, as far as I can tell, only 1 actual answer, and many people completely misunderstood the question. I don't need stock data, prices, or anything like that! One answer that addresses the correct problem is this: it is a very private API and one that can break at any time. The exact callback used by the website must be used, otherwise it does not work. It also works only in JSON format, and not in XML format, which I would prefer if possible.

At the moment I am considering 3 things, and I would appreciate any feedback on these suggestions or suggestions from others:

• Use SPARQL to query DBPedia and the “Traded As” fields in Wikipedia blocks, this data is relatively unstructured, incomplete, or inconsistent. I also have not used SPARQL before, so this can be a problem.
• Build a virtual table for use with the Yahoo query language, which actually escapes the Yahoo website (or another) but provides a “nice” interface that allows me to modify the backend data without redistributing the application (for example, if Yahoo change their website). This has the added benefit that I already have code to work with YQL + XML.
• Just scan the data from my application from sites that allow you to use them in your conditions of use.

The screen scraper looks like a hack, and it feels that it can be broken very easily, so I do not want to make the last two options, however, looking at the DBPedia data with a test request, it seems that it is really terrible and generally can not be useless at all .

Summary I need a reliable API to get conditional characters for company names.

Change This should not be the Yahoo API at all. I would prefer to use them if possible, but only because of different code using their services.

Answer 1

It might be useful :)

' http://d.yimg.com/autoc.finance.yahoo.com/autoc?query= COMPANY_NAME_HERE & callback = YAHOO.Finance.SymbolSuggest.ssCallback';

It returns as JSON.

Answer 2

I found the solutions there, including Yahoo, are really bad, so I created here

You can request both companies and such tickers:

If you enter "fb", you will request: http://chstocksearch.herokuapp.com/api/fb

or if you enter "apple", you will request: http://chstocksearch.herokuapp.com/api/apple

UPDATE I will be taking chstocksearch offline over the next month in favor of my new project: https://www.stocksearchapi.com

UPDATE 2 I disabled this service offline

Answer 3

XIgnite provides a web service that provides this service, although I have never used it and cannot comment on its quality. You can license this information from financial data providers such as Thomson Reuters. If you want to make your own fuzzy Bloomberg BSYM match , data can be a good place to get started.

Answer 4

The website I use is http://www.eoddata.com/

You can download EOD data for free. or purchase available information at 100yrs. with EOD data, you can easily import it into any relative base program (Lotus Access is very easy to use). Access will automatically update the EOD data. you can then copy this data to Lotus 123 (or microsucks), where you can easily manipulate the data.

This will help you and in principle for free. however, you will find that a stand-alone program is the way to go.

rewriting mine now in python