How do I get all stocks' name from the market into a Python list?

Alpaca Integration Applications
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Hi guys,

Has anyone tried to pull all the stock names from the market using Alpaca api? could you tell me the function name?

Thank you.

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Hey,

first, you need to create an instance of the REST API alpaca provides. After this, there is a method to get all available stocks (assets) from the market.

import alpaca_trade_api as alpaca

api = alpaca.REST('<YOUR_API_KEY_ID>', '<YOUR_API_SECRET_KEY>', '<URL>')

active_assets = api.list_assets(status='active')  # you could leave out the status to also get the inactive ones

This will return a list of Assets. These Assets have attributes (a list of them can be found here) To print out the more relevant information you could use the following lines of code:

for asset in active_assets:
    print(f"{asset.symbol}  \t{asset.name}")