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Examples of programs that interact with the OpenFIGI services via their APIs.
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Quick Search throught the API is this possible? #15

Closed stugit closed 5 years ago

stugit commented 6 years ago

Is it possible to do a quick search through the API, similar to https://openfigi.com/search? I can't seem to get the same results.

jayflo commented 6 years ago

@stugit : Currently this is not possible. The API only supports the /mapping endpoint for mapping third party identifiers to FIGIs. It's likely that more endpoints will be added in the future.

I'd be interested to learn your use case and what types of searches you would like to do via the API.

stugit commented 6 years ago

Thanks for the response. It would be great if you could add wildcard search by name in a future update. Given a name of a company I would like to retrieve for all underlying securities through the API.

alexrwlaw commented 6 years ago

@jayflo I'll second the request for being able to wildcard search by name, please. Thanks!

p4tr1ckc4rs0n commented 6 years ago

+1 for being able to query the api by company name. I'm working with the TICKER idType however lots of different companies get returned when querying with a single TICKER value.

glennlawyer commented 6 years ago

+1 for search. @jayflo my use case is to match data from an external provider with Bloomberg data. The external provider gives us the company name; you know better than I how poorly that works as an identifier.

jayflo commented 5 years ago

Search is now available on the API.

https://www.openfigi.com/api#post-v2-search

FernandoJC commented 4 years ago

I am doing a search using Equity as Market Sector and UR - NASDAQ CM as Exchange Code, while leaving empty the Quick Search box. This is currently working on https://www.openfigi.com/search however, I'm unable to find a way to use the search API endpoint for accomplishing the same request because of the endpoint requiring a non-empty value for the property "query". Is the property "query" the same as the "Quick Search" box? Or am I missing something here?

jayflo commented 4 years ago

I am away from my PC right now, but I'm fairly certain we don't require the query property. Have you tried it?

FernandoJC commented 4 years ago

You are right, it seems to be not required when calling the API. However, https://www.openfigi.com/api#post-v2-search documentation could be misleading since it is stating that the "query" property is required.

jayflo commented 4 years ago

Ah, we need to update the documentation. Sorry for the confusion.

FernandoJC commented 4 years ago

No worries! Thanks for the quick answer. This helped for finding out the little issue with the documentation as well, so win - win for everyone.