Overview
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The Security Master API provides a centralized, canonical dataset of identifiers and metadata for global instruments. It is designed to serve as the foundational reference layer for any financial data platform, ensuring consistency across tickers, company names, CUSIPs, ISINs, FIGIs, PermIDs, exchange codes, and other identifiers used across downstream applications.
Concepts
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The following table defines general concepts related to the Dow Jones Newswires Real-Time Search API:
Attribute
Definition
Article
It is a piece of writing on a particular subject. It is usually an independent entity included with others in a newspaper, journal, magazine, or other publication.
Search
It is a query string to look for information based on Dow Jones Newswires taxonomy codes. Dow Jones Newswires taxonomy codes allow you to exclude or filter the information using not
in a query string. Dow Jones Newswires taxonomy codes support and
and or
keywords to include more than one selection or filtering specifications. Use (
and )
to group information. For example: (pdt:>20220307080000000 and pdt:<20220307163059000)
. You can use other keywords, operators (or
, and
, not
, <
, >
, =
), parameters, headline (hd=
), language (la=
), (significant
and about
) and DJN taxonomy codes (djn=
). For example: "value": "djn=p/pmdm and (pdt:>20220307080000000 and pdt:<20220307163059000)"
. To use Dow Jones Newswires Taxonomy, assign "djn=p/pmdm"
to the search_string
object value
parameter. For example: "value": "djn=p/pmdm"
.
Significant
About Nucor Corp. using ticker – djn:djnabout:nue
About Nucor Corp using ISIN – djn:djnabout:us6703461052
Significant news on Nucor Corp using ticker – djn:sig:nue
Significant news on Nucor Corp using ISIN – djn:sig:us6703461052
Significant company news – ili:DJNCOMPANYSIGNIFICANT
Request Body Data Definitions
The following table defines general concepts related to the Dow Jones Newswires Real-Time Search API:
Important: The Dow Jones Newswires Real-Time API schema includes attributes that do not apply to the API request. This section describes only the functional features.
The following sections describe the request body parameters and a sample request body.
Sample Search Request Body
Note: Some fields and objects are replaced with ...
to improve the readability of the responses in this document.
The following code snippet illustrates a sample search request body:
Important: The input request has a limit of 10K characters. This limit applies to the whole POST
call, including its authentication.
Search Request Data Headers
The following table describes the data
headers of a search request:
Concept
Concept
Definition
id
String
Identifier for the REST request. Fixed value: Search
type
String
The type of the expected response. Fixed value: content