Download all stock symbol list of a market

Question

I need to download in some way a list of all stock symbol of specified market.

I've found in this link ho can I do it someway.

It uses following link in order to retrieve stock list that statisfies some parameters:

https://www.google.com/finance?start=0&num=3000&q=%5B(exchange%20%3D%3D%20%22NASDAQ%22)%20%26%20(last_price%20%3E%200.1)%20%26%20(last_price%20%3C%201500)%5D&restype=company&noIL=1

I've modified the query removing contraints

https://www.google.com/finance?q=%5B%28exchange+%3D%3D+%22NASDAQ%22%29%5D

Now I have all stock list but in a web page that I must navigate.

Is there a way to obtain the full list in some standard format, like xml, json or whatever?

Answer 1

Exchanges will usually publish an up-to-date list of securities on their web pages. For example, these pages offer CSV downloads:

• http://www.nasdaq.com/screening/companies-by-industry.aspx?exchange=NASDAQ&render=download
• http://www.nasdaq.com/screening/companies-by-industry.aspx?exchange=NYSE&render=download
• http://www.asx.com.au/asx/research/ASXListedCompanies.csv

NASDAQ Updated their site, so you will have to modify the URLS:

NASDAQ

• https://old.nasdaq.com/screening/companies-by-name.aspx?letter=0&exchange=nasdaq&render=download

AMEX

• https://old.nasdaq.com/screening/companies-by-name.aspx?letter=0&exchange=amex&render=download

NYSE

• https://old.nasdaq.com/screening/companies-by-name.aspx?letter=0&exchange=nyse&render=download

Depending on your requirement, you could create the map of these URLs by exchange in your own code.