openfigi-client

Python wrapper for the OpenFIGI API v3.

Table of contents

• About OpenFIGI
• Installation
• API key
• Mapping
• Filtering
• Troubleshooting

About OpenFIGI

• The Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI) is a universal system for identifying instruments globally and across all asset classes
• OpenFIGI is an application programming interface that provides automated access to mapping various symbols with their corresponding FIGI. It is available at https://www.openfigi.com/
• openfigi_client is a thin Python wrapper to access OpenFIGI

The API contains 3 endpoints:

Note: given that the /search endpoint is strictly superseded by the /filter endpoint, we choose not to include it in the wrapper.

Installation

openfigi_client is published on PyPI. To install it, simply run:

pip install openfigi_client

API key

The API can be used with or without API key. Getting an API key is free and loosens the rate limits.

When instantiating the wrapper, the API key is optional:

from openfigi_client import OpenFigiSync

client = OpenFigiSync()
client = OpenFigiSync(api_key="XXXXXXXXXX")

Async

In addition to the synchronous client, there is an equivalent asynchronous client available. All examples below work equally, simply import OpenFigiAsync instead and await the calls.

Mapping

The map() method takes a list of MappingJob as argument and returns a list of MappingJobResult. The result of the request at index i in the list of mapping jobs is located at index i in the list of results.

from openfigi_client import OpenFigiSync, MappingJob

mapping_job = MappingJob(id_type="TICKER", id_value="IBM", exch_code="US")
mapping_jobs = [mapping_job]
results = OpenFigiSync().map(mapping_jobs)

>>> results
[
    MappingJobResultFigiList(
        data = [
            FigiResult(
                  figi='BBG000BLNNH6', 
                  security_type='Common Stock', 
                  market_sector='Equity', 
                  ticker='IBM', 
                  name='INTL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP', 
                  exch_code='US', 
                  share_class_figi='BBG001S5S399', 
                  composite_figi='BBG000BLNNH6', 
                  security_type2='Common Stock', 
                  security_description='IBM', 
                  metadata=None
            )
        ]
    )
]

A MappingJobResult can either be a MappingJobResultFigiList, a MappingJobResultFigiNotFound or a MappingJobResultError.

The MappingJob object has 2 required properties which are id_type and id_value. The other properties are optional but subject to specific rules in case they are provided. These rules are modeled and checked using Pydantic.

Below is the full list of properties for MappingJob:

Some of the properties in the MappingJob are "enum-like". For each of these properties, it is possible to retrieve the current list of accepted values via specific methods:

For example, to retrieve the current values for id_type:

from openfigi_client import OpenFigiSync

id_types = OpenFigiSync().get_id_types()

Filtering

The filter() method takes a Filter object as argument and returns a list of FigiResult.

• The Filter object is very similar to the MappingJob object
• The only difference are that the id_type and id_value are replaced by a single query property
• All the "enum-like" properties are the same and the list of accepted values is the same
• The maximum number of results is limited to 15,000

Example

from openfigi_client import OpenFigiSync, Filter

query = Filter(query="SJIM")
results = OpenFigiSync().filter(query)

In order to know the total number of matches for a given query before starting to request them, it is possible to use the get_total_number_of_matches() method:

from openfigi_client import OpenFigiSync, Filter

query = Filter(query="SJIM")
number_of_results = OpenFigiSync().get_total_number_of_matches(query)

>>> number_of_results
36

Troubleshooting

Several kinds of errors can occur.

• ValidationError: the MappingJob and Filter objects are modelled using msgspec and therefore need to be properly instantiated. If an error occurs, a msgspec.ValidationError will be raised.

• HTTPError: in case the status code of the HTTP response is not 200, an HTTPError exception will be raised. Note: in case a particular symbol is not found, the API will still respond with a status 200 and a MappingNotFound object. HTTP errors only occur if there is a real error like a malformed MappingJob request (which should not happen since all MappingJob objects are checked by Pydantic prior to being sent), a rate limitation or an internal server error.

Here is how to check for ValidationError in case the mapping jobs are instantiated programmatically:

from msgspec import ValidationError

from openfigi_client import MappingJob

tickers = ["IBM", "XRX", "TSLA", None, "MSFT"]

mapping_jobs = []
for ticker in tickers:
    try:
        mapping_job = MappingJob(id_type="TICKER", id_value=ticker, exch_code="US")
        mapping_jobs.append(mapping_job)
    except ValidationError:
        print(f"Error when trying to build a MappingJob with {ticker=}")
        # Do something
        continue

And here is how to check for HTTPError in case exceptions need to be handled:

from openfigi_client import OpenFigiSync, MappingJob
from openfigi_client.exceptions import HTTPError

mapping_jobs = [MappingJob(id_type="TICKER", id_value="IBM", exch_code="US")]

try:
    results = OpenFigiSync().map(mapping_jobs)
except HTTPError as e:
    print(f"{e}")
    # Do something