@kabonker I have same question, currently using symbols scraped from EODData . You can select the exchange you want and pull all tickers from each page of the alphabet (all of this is selectable from URL so easily scrapable). I haven't run the whole list yet but will post it once I do. Can post scraper code to GitHub in meantime and update this comment with link.

I created a list of about 4000 tickers.. but would be cool if we just had a list in this library that is some how synced with yahoo finance, so everyone doesn't have to do it manually themselves.

Agreed, need to compile the list first. May not be publicly available anywhere on Yahoo finance site though so brute force is only solution. BTW can you post your list?

@kabonker is this the source you used?
http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/trader.aspx?id=symboldirdefs

@kabonker I found out this website which has all the tickers [last updated 2017]. So you can use that.

This Excel spreadsheet was updated in September 2017. It is broken down into eight sheets, one each for:

• stocks (106332 tickers)
• ETFs (21196tickers)
• futures (9294 tickers)
• indices (80017 tickers)
• mutual funds (24926 tickers)
• currency pairs (4019 tickers)

That’s 245784 ticker symbols in total.

Dude that is awesome... Scotty we will need more power!!!! https://youtu.be/QYqXSlPmMJs?t=10

FYI this file says "2017".. been 3 years. Must be missing a ton of companies. Anyone have an updated list?

I am interested in this one as well. One other problem is that I get a lot of tickers as not existing/delisted/deleted. This is obviously an issue. If a ticker was live in 2017 but the company has been delisted since then and therefore the ticker is not valid then there is no consistent way of creating accurate historic stock universes for backtesting. To make this a bit dramatic, Enron would not appear in any of the universes because it doesn't exist today however if you were doing live trading you would have obviously included it at the time (and taken the hit if you were long). In a technical jargon, the survivorship bias is massive. I guess this is why it pays to have professional grade data. That said, this is better than nothing for small projects.

Does someone know a python-module that can obtain the ticker list?

Information from https://finviz.com/screener.ashx?ft=4 and package from https://pypi.org/project/pyfinviz/.

See the code below. (You can add more than 10 pages if you want all the tickers...)

I am not an expert in python. So if you know how to optimise this code, please show me how!

Thank you!

Have a nice day! :)

`from pyfinviz.screener import Screener

page = 10

screener = Screener(pages=[x for x in range(1, page)])

list_ticker = []
for i in range(0, page):
if i == 1:
pass
else:
for j in range(len(screener.data_frames[i])):
list_ticker.append(screener.data_frames[i].Ticker[j])
list(list_ticker)

print(list_ticker)`

How many should there be? I can scrape 10,000 when looking for ALL tickers, just not sure if I got them all because they claim to have 90,000+

edit:

And that goes for Stocks, Mutual Funds, ETFs, and Indicies (all have more than 10k results, but I can only get 10k of them).

Hey everyone, any updates on retrieving all tickers from Yahoo finance. Also does anyone know any good APIs for retrieving FX options data. Thanks

https://github.com/mlapenna7/yh_symbol_universe

You can use the screeners available at the Yahoo finance site: https://finance.yahoo.com/screener/
For example my screener for ETFs traded in the US would then be https://finance.yahoo.com/screener/unsaved/5719e91c-77b9-42ff-987b-d99bcf5c9c8d (3429 on 2022-12-29)

A daily updated csv file of all US-listed equities (stocks and ETFs) is available from alphavantage.co for free. You don't even need to get the (free) API key for it. Just query the following URL and you will be served.

https://www.alphavantage.co/query?function=LISTING_STATUS&apikey=demo

Hi everyone, Is there a fresh solution to this?....to query yfinance and (1) list all symbols/tickers...and then (2) filter where quoteType = ETF ?

There's a "downloadable files" on the left side. It's a complete list of stocks
https://ftp.nasdaqtrader.com/Trader.aspx?id=symbollookup