Get Company Info based on it stock symbol - IEXTrading Api - C#

Api to find company's info based on its publicly traded stock symbol. IEX Trading api is a best an reliable, alternative to Yahoo Finance and Google Finance Api.

Company's Info - IEX Trading Api

Consuming Company's Info IEX Trading api using Postman:

Web Api Url: https://api.iextrading.com/1.0/stock/aapl/company

Api Response:

{
  "symbol": "AAPL",
  "companyName": "Apple Inc.",
  "exchange": "Nasdaq Global Select",
  "industry": "Computer Hardware",
  "website": "http://www.apple.com",
  "description": "Apple Inc is an American multinational technology company. It designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, and portable digital music players.",
  "CEO": "Timothy D. Cook",
  "issueType": "cs",
  "sector": "Technology",
}

C# Code for finding company's info

Step 1:

Create a console application

Step 2:

Add following nuget packages

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<packages>
  <package id="Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Client" version="5.2.3" targetFramework="net45" />
  <package id="Newtonsoft.Json" version="10.0.3" targetFramework="net45" />
</packages>

Step 3:

Create a C# POCO class for storing Json Response.

public class CompanyInfoResponse
{
    public string symbol { get; set; }
    public string companyName { get; set; }
    public string exchange { get; set; }
    public string industry { get; set; }
    public string website { get; set; }
    public string description { get; set; }
    public string CEO { get; set; }
    public string issueType { get; set; }
    public string sector { get; set; }
}

Step 4:

Write Web API Consumer for Get Request

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace CompaniesInfo
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            var symbol = "msft";
            var IEXTrading_API_PATH = "https://api.iextrading.com/1.0/stock/{0}/company";

            IEXTrading_API_PATH = string.Format(IEXTrading_API_PATH, symbol);

            using (HttpClient client = new HttpClient())
            {
                client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Clear();
                client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new System.Net.Http.Headers.MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));

                //For IP-API
                client.BaseAddress = new Uri(IEXTrading_API_PATH);
                HttpResponseMessage response = client.GetAsync(IEXTrading_API_PATH).GetAwaiter().GetResult();
                if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
                {
                    var companysInfo = response.Content.ReadAsAsync<CompanyInfoResponse>().GetAwaiter().GetResult();
                    if (companysInfo != null)
                    {
                        Console.WriteLine("Company Name: " + companysInfo.companyName);
                        Console.WriteLine("Industry: " + companysInfo.industry);
                        Console.WriteLine("Sector: " + companysInfo.sector);
                        Console.WriteLine("Website: " + companysInfo.website);
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }


    public class CompanyInfoResponse
    {
        public string symbol { get; set; }
        public string companyName { get; set; }
        public string exchange { get; set; }
        public string industry { get; set; }
        public string website { get; set; }
        public string description { get; set; }
        public string CEO { get; set; }
        public string issueType { get; set; }
        public string sector { get; set; }
    }
}

Note: IEX Trading is 100% Free and reliable api to get stock market data. The free API is built on a proven, high-performance system, and drives many of the applications we use within IEX. Usage of IEX Trading api - 100 requests per second.