# Is there an API to perform request about stocks and financial derivatives? [closed]

Is there an API to make a request such as: all the companies which thier P/E ratio is greater than 50 ? I know I can crawl google finance and have it locally on my desktop, but I prefer something more dynamic.

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## closed as off-topic by chrisaycockJul 14 '13 at 0:51

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Mathematica has lots of this built into their FinancialData[] function. – Jagra Jul 13 '13 at 20:47
@Jagra, How do you get the data into the Array, my question is how to collect the data rather than how to process it. thanks – 0x90 Jul 13 '13 at 20:56
@0x90 - That is exactly what FinancialData[] does. Please refer to its documentation. – Andrew Cheong Jul 13 '13 at 22:04
@acheong87 add this as an answer. is there anything similar for matlab? – 0x90 Jul 13 '13 at 22:09
Like I said last time I closed your question, this is a site for people who work in quantitative finance. – chrisaycock Jul 14 '13 at 0:52