How to get Eikon data on python for a set of RICs given in excel sheet?

Hi, I have a list of RICs in a CSV file. I need to read these RICs and then get data such as PE ratio, EBITDA etc. for them all for a particular year. Essentially I need a dataframe for 2017 that has and EBITDA and PE data for all these RICs, then a dataframe for 2016 that has EBITDA and PE data for all these RICs and so on. Can someone please suggest a solution?

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Zhenya Kovalyov

@DNKala, here is a code sample that can help.

df, e = ek.get_data(['AAPL.O', 'GOOG.O'], 
                    ['TR.EBITDA.fperiod','TR.EBITDA(Scale=3)', 'TR.HistPE'], 
                    {'Frq':'FY', 'Period':'FY0', 'SDate':'-2', 'EDate':'0',
                    'Curn':'USD'})

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Zhenya Kovalyov

@DNKala, here is a code sample that can help.

df, e = ek.get_data(['AAPL.O', 'GOOG.O'], 
                    ['TR.EBITDA.fperiod','TR.EBITDA(Scale=3)', 'TR.HistPE'], 
                    {'Frq':'FY', 'Period':'FY0', 'SDate':'-2', 'EDate':'0',
                    'Curn':'USD'})

DNKala

Thanks very much Zhenya Kovalyov. Would you be aware of a way I can access 'AAPL.O', 'GOOG.O' from a csv file in this code here? I have about 5000 RICs in a csv file and its painstaking to manually add them all to the code here.

Alex Putkov.1

@DNKala
This question is about general programming in Python. It's not specific to the use of Refinitiv APIs. You can utilize countless resources on the Internet to find the answer to this question. One way of doing this would be to use read_csv method of pandas library to load the content of a csv file into a pandas dataframe. Then you can use tolist() method to convert series to a list. See for example this thread on Stackoverflow. The list can then be used in get_data method of eikon library. You may need to slice the list, as 5K RICs may be too many for a single request.

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