Search Financial Assets From Keyword(s) — search_assets

Search for financial data based on texts and retrieve asset symbol(s), name(s), exchanges place(s), and asset type(s). It's a variant of search_assets().

Usage

search_assets_quick(
  texts = "Dow Jones",
  .verbose = TRUE,
  region = NULL,
  lang = "en"
)

Arguments

texts: character string representing the texts to search. This can be a company name, index, or financial term.
.verbose: logical If TRUE, print additional details about the search process. Default is TRUE.
region: A character string specifying the region for the search (e.g., "US", "EU"). Default is NULL, meaning no region filter is applied.
lang: A character string specifying the language of the data returned. Default is "en" for English.

Value

A data.frame with assets symbols and names.

symbol - The financial symbol (e.g., stock ticker or index).
name - The full name of the financial entity (e.g., 'Dow Jones Industrial Average').
exch - The exchange on which the symbol is listed (e.g., 'DJI', 'CBT').
type - The type of financial instrument (e.g., I for Index, F for Futures, E for Exchange Traded Fund).
exchdisp - The exchange name displayed (e.g., 'Dow Jones').
typedisp - A long name for the type of financial instrument (e.g., 'Index', 'Futures' or 'ETF' for 'Exchange Traded Fund').

Examples

# Example of searching for financial data related to "Dow Jones"
results <- search_assets_quick(texts = "Dow Jones")
str(results)
#> 'data.frame':	10 obs. of  7 variables:
#>  $ symbol  : chr  "^DJI" "YM=F" "RX=F" "MYM=F" ...
#>  $ name    : chr  "Dow Jones Industrial Average" "Mini Dow Jones Indus.-$5 Mar 26" "Dow Jones US Real Estate Index" "Micro E-mini Dow Jones Industri" ...
#>  $ exch    : chr  "DJI" "CBT" "CBT" "CBT" ...
#>  $ type    : chr  "I" "F" "F" "F" ...
#>  $ exchdisp: chr  "Dow Jones" "Chicago Board of Trade" "Chicago Board of Trade" "Chicago Board of Trade" ...
#>  $ typedisp: chr  "Index" "Futures" "Futures" "Futures" ...
#>  $ searched: chr  "Dow Jones" "Dow Jones" "Dow Jones" "Dow Jones" ...
#>  - attr(*, "date.fetch")= Date[1:1], format: "2026-01-13"