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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>'
{
  "company_facts": {
    "ticker": "<string>",
    "name": "<string>",
    "cik": "<string>",
    "industry": "<string>",
    "sector": "<string>",
    "category": "<string>",
    "exchange": "<string>",
    "is_active": true,
    "location": "<string>",
    "sec_filings_url": "<string>",
    "sic_code": "<string>",
    "sic_industry": "<string>",
    "sic_sector": "<string>"
  }
}

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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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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

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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