Search Symbols.md

Search for Yahoo Finance Symbols

This package currently provides two ways to get tickers.

• you know the company/security name but are unsure about the ticker use get_symbols()
• you simply want all tickers listed on the NASDAQ, AMEX, or NYSE use get_all_symbols()

Structs

The Items returned by get_symbols

YahooSearch

Basically is a custom Array of YahooSearchItems returned by get_symbols.

mutable struct YahooSearch{YahooSearchItem,N} <: AbstractArray{YahooSearchItem,N}
   arr::Array{YahooSearchItem,N}
end

YahooSearchItem

This is an individual search item in YahooSearch. It contains the following fields:

• symbol: The Symbol (Ticker)
• shortname: The short name of the instrument/company
• quoteType: The type of asset (e.g. EQUITY)
• sector: The Sector (only if quotetype==EQUITY, otherwise "")
• industry: The Industry (only if quotetype==EQUITY, otherwise "")

mutable struct YahooSearchItem
   symbol::String
   shortname::String
   exchange::String
   quoteType::String
   sector::String
   industry::String
end

Search Functions

get_symbols
get_all_symbols