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XBRLAnalyst Web API

Description

XBRLAnalyst Web API is provided to users of all subscription types of XBRLAnalyst. The API allows to retrieve fundamental and stock market financial information of all public companies that file XBRL reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the US. All information is provided in the following formats: JSON(default) and XML (you can specify it with “format” parameter).

Financial information can be retrieved about companies, their individual filings to SEC, the statements and disclosures contained within those filings, and any XBRL facts reported within the report or normalized financial metrics computed by FinDynamics. A separate set of calls is provided for retrieving Stock Market Price/Volume for any of the listed companies as well as statistics such as averages over a selected period of time, e.g. 52-week average.

For Preview purposes, we provide unregistered visitor with open access to the API for companies listed in S&P100 Index.

Calls

Public Companies

Use:

Retrieve information about individual public company or a clist (company list) of companies.

Example:

https://xbrlanalyst.findynamics.com/api/v2/companies?ticker=wmt

Parameters:
Name Description
cik The CIK (central index key) number of a company
(e.g., Walmart is “0000104169”).
ticker The trading symbol of a company (e.g., “MSFT” for Microsoft).
clist A list of companies.

Financial Reports

Use:

Retrieve information about individual financial report or all reports submitted by the public company to SEC.

Example:

https://xbrlanalyst.findynamics.com/api/v2/reports?ticker=wmt

Parameters:
Name Description
cik, ticker, clist See Public Companies.
accessionNumber The SEC-assigned accession number.
focusYear The focus fiscal year of the accession (corresponds to the
DocumentFiscalYearFocus DEI tag).
focusPeriod The focus fiscal period of the accession (corresponds to the
DocumentFiscalPeriodFocus DEI tag).
docType The document type of the accession (corresponds to the
DocumentType DEI tag).

Report Sections

Use:

Retrieve detail information about sections of financial report (Statements and Disclosures)

Example:

https://xbrlanalyst.findynamics.com/api/v2/sections?ticker=wmt&accessionNumber=0001193125-11-083157

Parameters:
Name Description
cik, ticker, clist See Public Companies.
accessionNumber,
focusYear, focusPeriod, docType		 See Financial Reports.
networkRole A number representing the category of the section. For example,
2 represents an income or comprehensive income statement.
networkOrdinal The ordinal number of the section relative to list of all sections
(sorted by network description).
networkUri The extended link role of the section. Together with the
accession number, this uniquely identifies a section.

 

Financial Facts

Use:

Retrieve one or many financial facts: values of XBRL facts or Normalized Financial Metrics pre-computed by FinDynamics.

Example:

https://xbrlanalyst.findynamics.com/api/v2/facts?ticker=wmt&tid=revenue&fiscalYear=2013&fiscalPeriod=Q1
https://xbrlanalyst.findynamics.com/api/v2/facts?ticker=googl&fiscalYear=2013&fiscalPeriod=FY&concept=Revenues&member=MotorolaMobilityHoldingsIncMember

Parameters:
Name Description
cik, ticker, clist See Public Companies.
tid The Tid (normalized financial metric) to lookup.
concept The XBRL concept of a fact.
members XBRL Dimension Members.
fiscalYear The fiscal year of a fact.
fiscalPeriod The fiscal period of a fact.
accessionNumber,
focusYear, focusPeriod, docType		 Additional input parameters limiting the selection of financial facts to specific report(s). For more details, see Financial Reports.

Normalized Metrics

Use:

Retrieve the normalized metrics (“Tids”) available for use with the Financial Facts call.

Example:

https://xbrlanalyst.findynamics.com/api/v2/tids

Parameters:
Name Description
tid The Tid (normalized financial metric) to lookup.

Market Quotes

Use:

Retrieve End Of Day stock market quotes: prices and trading volume.

Example:

https://xbrlanalyst.findynamics.com/api/v2/marketquotes?ticker=wmt&date=2014-08-07

Parameters:
Name Description
cik, ticker, clist See Public Companies.
date The date to get the quote from.

Market Stats

Use:

Retrieve statistical estimates of stock market prices such as average price over a period of time.

Example:

https://xbrlanalyst.findynamics.com/api/v2/marketstats?ticker=wmt&date=2014-08-07&duration=30

Parameters:
Name Description
cik, ticker, clist See Public Companies.
date The last date for the interval.
duration The duration of the interval in days counted backward from the last date of the interval.