Downloading stocks listed on Nasdaq

gaihosa · Apr 20, 2019

I used to use this link https://www.nasdaq.com/screening/companies-by-industry.aspx?exchange=NASDAQ&render=download to download a copy of all the listed stocks on the Nasdaq with some code I wrote. I was using curl in some c++ code but for some reason it no longer works. I am actually using QT and have already tried various QT classes but have no success.

I was wondering if anyone could help with this.

I even tried wget and curl from the command line it still doesn't work.

Does work fine from any web browser.

DaveV · Apr 20, 2019

Try:

wget --no-check-certificate "https://www.nasdaq.com/screening/companies-by-industry.aspx?exchange=NASDAQ&render=download" -O nasdaq-stocks.csv

Kevin Schmit · Apr 20, 2019

wget from command line seems to work fine:

wget "https://www.nasdaq.com/screening/companies-by-industry.aspx?exchange=NASDAQ&render=download" -0 x.csv

Curl is also working fine.

However if you are looking for "all the listed stocks on the NASDAQ," then you are not going to get that from the screener. The Naz screener output it incomplete. You are better off downloading the nightly nasdaqlisted file from the Nasdaq ftp site.

gaihosa said:
I used to use this link https://www.nasdaq.com/screening/companies-by-industry.aspx?exchange=NASDAQ&render=download to download a copy of all the listed stocks on the Nasdaq with some code I wrote. I was using curl in some c++ code but for some reason it no longer works. I am actually using QT and have already tried various QT classes but have no success.

I was wondering if anyone could help with this.

I even tried wget and curl from the command line it still doesn't work.

Does work fine from any web browser.

d08 · Apr 21, 2019

Why not use this.

HobbyTrading · Apr 21, 2019

d08 said:
Why not use this.

Or use this: ftp://ftp.nasdaqtrader.com/SymbolDirectory/

DaveV · Apr 21, 2019

d08 said:
Why not use this.

HobbyTrading said:
Or use this: ftp://ftp.nasdaqtrader.com/SymbolDirectory/

How did you find this link, and are there similar links available on nasdaqtrader.com ?

gaihosa · Apr 21, 2019

d08 said:
Why not use this.

I prefer the csv since it includes the IPO year. I only trade IPO stocks that are two years old or young. This is les work for maintaining a list.

HobbyTrading · Apr 21, 2019

DaveV said:
How did you find this link, and are there similar links available on nasdaqtrader.com ?

I think that the link was mentioned in another thread at ET, with the same question. But it was quite some time ago, so I’m not 100% sure.

MoneyMatthew · Apr 21, 2019

gaihosa said:
I prefer the csv since it includes the IPO year. I only trade IPO stocks that are two years old or young. This is les work for maintaining a list.

Can I ask what advantage you see in trading IPO stocks two years old or younger?

DaveV · Apr 21, 2019

DaveV said:
How did you find this link, and are there similar links available on nasdaqtrader.com ?

Never mind, I found the parent website to the links. It also describes each field in the CSV rows: http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/trader.aspx?id=symboldirdefs#nasdaq