Ways to get industry/sector/market info given a symbol?

Discussion in 'Strategy Building' started by soloist_huaxin, Dec 29, 2015.

  1. ideally something like this:
    input: AAPL
    output: (industry/sector/market) electronic equipment/consumer electronics/NASDAQ

    anyone know any free source for this that I can access using python? I'm thinking about yahoo's yql or quandl, something like that.