Facts (by ticker)

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👋 Overview

Company facts includes data like name, CIK, market cap, total employees, website URL, and more.

The company facts API provides a simple way to access the most important high-level information about a company.

Please note: This API is experimental and free to use.

To get started, please create an account and grab your API key at financialdatasets.ai.

You will use the API key to authenticate your API requests.

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📊 Available Tickers

You can fetch a list of available tickers with a GET request to: https://api.financialdatasets.ai/company/facts/tickers/

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🚀 Getting Started

There are only 3 steps for making a successful API call:

1. Add your API key to the header of the request as X-API-KEY.
2. Add query params like ticker filter the data.
3. Execute the API request.

Note: You must include the ticker in your query params.

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💻 Example

import requests

# add your API key to the headers
headers = {
    "X-API-KEY": "your_api_key_here"
}

# set your query params
ticker = 'AAPL'

# create the URL
url = (
    f'https://api.financialdatasets.ai/company/facts'
    f'?ticker={ticker}'
)

# make API request
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

# parse company_facts from the response
company_facts = response.json().get('company_facts')