{"id":1152,"date":"2016-01-27T11:27:50","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T16:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2016-04-08T05:16:59","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T09:16:59","slug":"python-script-to-download-all-nasdaq-and-nyse-ticker-symbols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/?p=1152","title":{"rendered":"Python script to download all NASDAQ and NYSE ticker symbols"},"content":{"rendered":"

Below is a short python<\/a> script to get all NASDAQ<\/a> and NYSE<\/a> common stock tickers. You can then use the resulting file to get a lot of info using yahoofinance<\/a> library.<\/p>\n

[python]
\n#!\/usr\/bin\/env python<\/p>\n

import ftplib
\nimport os
\nimport re<\/p>\n

# Connect to ftp.nasdaqtrader.com
\nftp = ftplib.FTP(‘ftp.nasdaqtrader.com’, ‘anonymous’, ‘anonymous@debian.org’)<\/p>\n

# Download files nasdaqlisted.txt and otherlisted.txt from ftp.nasdaqtrader.com
\nfor ficheiro in [“nasdaqlisted.txt”, “otherlisted.txt”]:
\n ftp.cwd(“\/SymbolDirectory”)
\n localfile = open(ficheiro, ‘wb’)
\n ftp.retrbinary(‘RETR ‘ + ficheiro, localfile.write)
\n localfile.close()
\nftp.quit()<\/p>\n

# Grep for common stock in nasdaqlisted.txt and otherlisted.txt
\nfor ficheiro in [“nasdaqlisted.txt”, “otherlisted.txt”]:
\n localfile = open(ficheiro, ‘r’)
\n for line in localfile:
\n if re.search(“Common Stock”, line):
\n ticker = line.split(“|”)[0]
\n # Append tickers to file tickers.txt
\n open(“tickers.txt”,”a+”).write(ticker + “\\n”)
\n[\/python]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Below is a short python script to get all NASDAQ and NYSE common stock tickers. You can then use the resulting file to get a lot of info using yahoofinance library. [python] #!\/usr\/bin\/env python import ftplib import os import re # Connect to ftp.nasdaqtrader.com ftp = ftplib.FTP(‘ftp.nasdaqtrader.com’, ‘anonymous’, ‘anonymous@debian.org’) # Download files nasdaqlisted.txt and otherlisted.txt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[62,3],"tags":[44,6,23,67,70],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pTQgt-iA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1389,"href":"https:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions\/1389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}