Retrieves all the symbols available on Yahoo Finance and stores them in a file for subsequent processing. The last time this python program was run, it retrieved over 400,000 symbols. Currently just the ticker symbol and name are retrieved.
Written in python 3.9.
Takes a few hours to run. It's brute force but works.
python yh_get_all_sym.py
If you get an error running the script, you may need to install python libraries.
If so, use pip install <library name> . The only ones I am using are logging and requests.
- Tickers are stored in a file with name yhallsym.txt
- Output file format is structured as a python dictionary: { 'ticker1':'name1', 'ticker2':'name2', ... }
- File is located in the same folder you launched python script from
- Output file size is about 16MB
- Console messages are shown while the script is executing
- Log file contains the console messages is stored in yh_get_all_sym.log
{'BA': 'Boeing Company (The)', 'MA': 'Mastercard Incorporated', 'AAL': 'American Airlines Group, Inc.', 'AA': 'Alcoa Corporation', 'APA': 'APA Corporation', 'AI': 'C3.ai, Inc.', 'AG': 'First Majestic Silver Corp.', 'AR': 'Antero Resources Corporation', 'PAA': 'Plains All American Pipeline, L', 'AU': 'AngloGold Ashanti Limited', 'UA': 'Under Armour, Inc.', 'AM': 'Antero Midstream Corporation', 'AB': 'AllianceBernstein Holding L.P.', 'UAA': 'Under Armour, Inc.', 'EA': 'Electronic Arts Inc.', 'HA': 'Hawaiian Holdings, Inc.', 'A': 'Agilent Technologies, Inc.'}