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GET
/
company
/
facts
Get company facts
curl --request GET \
  --url https://api.financialdatasets.ai/company/facts \
  --header 'X-API-KEY: <api-key>'
import requests

url = "https://api.financialdatasets.ai/company/facts"

headers = {"X-API-KEY": "<api-key>"}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

print(response.text)
const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {'X-API-KEY': '<api-key>'}};

fetch('https://api.financialdatasets.ai/company/facts', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));
<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.financialdatasets.ai/company/facts",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "X-API-KEY: <api-key>"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.financialdatasets.ai/company/facts"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("X-API-KEY", "<api-key>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://api.financialdatasets.ai/company/facts")
  .header("X-API-KEY", "<api-key>")
  .asString();
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.financialdatasets.ai/company/facts")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["X-API-KEY"] = '<api-key>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
{
  "company_facts": {
    "ticker": "<string>",
    "name": "<string>",
    "cik": "<string>",
    "industry": "<string>",
    "sector": "<string>",
    "exchange": "<string>",
    "is_active": true,
    "location": "<string>",
    "sec_filings_url": "<string>",
    "sic_code": "<string>",
    "sic_industry": "<string>",
    "sic_sector": "<string>"
  }
}
{
  "error": "Bad Request",
  "message": "Invalid request parameters"
}
{
  "error": "Unauthorized",
  "message": "Invalid API key provided"
}
{
  "error": "Not Found",
  "message": "Ticker XXXX not found"
}

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Overview

Company facts includes data like name, CIK, 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. 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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Coverage

TickersYears of CoverageUpdated
28,000+CurrentReal-time

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Available CIKs

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

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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 cik filter the data.
  3. Execute the API request.
Note: You must include the cik in your query params.

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Example

Company Facts
import requests

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

# set your query params
cik = '0000320193'

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

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

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

Authorizations

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X-API-KEY
string
header
required

API key for authentication.

Query Parameters

​
ticker
string

The ticker symbol.

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cik
string

The CIK of the company.

Response

Company facts response

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company_facts
object