Reference Data

IEX Symbols

iexfinance.refdata.get_iex_symbols(**kwargs)

Returns array of all symbols the Investor’s Exchange supports for trading

Reference: https://iexcloud.io/docs/api/#iex-symbols

Data Weighting: Free

Usage

from iexfinance.refdata import get_iex_symbols

get_iex_symbols()[:2]

International Symbols

By Exchange

iexfinance.refdata.get_exchange_symbols(exchange, **kwargs)

Returns array of all international symbols in a given exchange that IEX Cloud supports for API calls

https://iexcloud.io/docs/api/#international-symbols

Data Weighting: 100 per call

Parameters

exchange (str) – Case insensitive string of Exchange using IEX Supported Exchanges list

By Region

iexfinance.refdata.get_region_symbols(region, **kwargs)

Returns array of all international symbols in a give region that IEX Cloud supports for API calls

https://iexcloud.io/docs/api/#international-symbols

Data Weighting: 100 per call

Parameters

region (str) – 2 letter case insensitive string of country codes using ISO 3166-1 alpha-2

Sectors

iexfinance.refdata.get_sectors(**kwargs)

Returns array of all sectors that IEX Cloud supports for API calls

Reference: https://iexcloud.io/docs/api/#sectors Data Weighting: 1 per call

Symbols

iexfinance.refdata.get_symbols(**kwargs)

Returns array of all symbols that IEX Cloud supports for API calls

Reference: https://iexcloud.io/docs/api/#symbols Data Weighting: 100 per call

Usage

In [1]: from iexfinance.refdata import get_symbols

In [2]: get_symbols()[:2]
Out[2]: 
  symbol exchange exchangeSuffix  ...          figi      cik                   lei
0      A      YNS             UN  ...  B263GV00DCB0  1105732  0QX9PRWUM7WY2AXG78I2
1     AA      NSY             UN  ...  D0HBG33B3TB0  1746417  53FZ01TU20E496WP912W

[2 rows x 14 columns]

U.S. Holidays & Trading Dates

iexfinance.refdata.get_us_trading_dates_holidays(type_, direction, last=1, startDate=None, **kwargs)

Function to obtain US trading dates or holidays from a given date

Reference: https://iexcloud.io/docs/api/#u-s-holidays-and-trading-dates

Data Weighting: 1 per row returned

Parameters

  • type (str) – can be “trade” or “holiday”. Determines whether to return days where trading took place or holidays

  • direction (str) – can be “next” or “last”. Determines whether to return dates in the future or the past

  • last (int, default 1) – number of days to go backward or forward

  • startDate (str, datetime.datetime, default current date) – specify first/last day included in next/last, respectively