A web scraper for ticker symbols from yahoo finance.
It produces a .csv file for stocks, futures, ETF, indexes, mutual funds and currency. The ticker symbol, company name and exchange are saved. The category the symbol belongs to is only stored for stock symbols.
It gets its data from http://finance.yahoo.com/lookup/.
From python package manager (preferred):
pip install Yahoo-ticker-downloader
From source:
python setup.py install
The first param is one of the following types: stocks
etf
index
currency
future
mutualfund
YahooTickerDownloader.py stocks
The program takes up a lot of RAM (up to 2GB) and several hours before it produces the .csv file. The program supports suspending and resuming a download. Simply press CTRL+C to suspend download. Restart the program in the same working directory to resume downloading.
Example of output:
Ticker,Name,Exchange,categoryName,categoryNr
ENZ,"Enzo Biochem Inc.",NYQ,"Medical Laboratories & Research",525
ENZN,"Enzon Pharmaceuticals Inc.",NMS,Biotechnology,515
ENZR,"Energizer Resources Inc.",PNK,,0
EOAA.DE,"E.ON AG",GER,"Diversified Utilities",913
KMX,"CarMax Inc.",NYQ,"Auto Dealerships",744
KMY.MU,KIMBERLY-CLARK,MUN,"Personal Products",323
KN1.DU,ECOUNION,DUS,"Business Software & Services",826
KNCAY,"Konica Minolta Holdings Inc.",PNK,,0
KND,"Kindred Healthcare Inc.",NYQ,"Long-Term Care Facilities",523
KNDI,"Kandi Technologies, Corp",NGM,"Auto Manufacturers - Major",330
...ect
Depending on the type you are downloading, you will get 3.000 to 14.000 entries.
Download history for symbols: ystockquote