Getting stock symbol from company name

Question

I have a company name and i want to get the stock symbol of that company and all the information related to it. I have tried using yahoo call back Stock ticker symbol lookup API but for some reason it returns a http 400 bad request. Could someone please tell me how i would go about getting the symbol for that stock so that i can query yahoo and get all the data. Also is it possible to just use this company name to get all the stock related data.

request i sent-"http://d.yimg.com/autoc.finance.yahoo.com/autoc?"+symbol+"=yahoo&callback=YAHOO.Finance.SymbolSuggest.ssCallback" where symbol=Thomas Scott

Answer 1

Your query is malformed. Try:

http://d.yimg.com/autoc.finance.yahoo.com/autoc?query=Thomas%20Scott&callback=YAHOO.Finance.SymbolSuggest.ssCallback