NYSE, NASDAQ, and AMEX stock list

stocks.py

import requests

class Stock:

	def __init__(self, exc, symb, name, link):
		self.exchange = exc
		self.symbol = symb
		self.name = name
		self.link = link

	def __str__(self):
		return '%s\t%s'%(self.exchange, self.symbol)

	def __lt__(self, other):
		return self.symbol < other.symbol

stocks = []

base_url = "http://www.nasdaq.com/screening/companies-by-industry.aspx"
for exchange in ['NASDAQ', 'NYSE', 'AMEX']:
	url = base_url + "?exchange=%s&render=download"%exchange
	req = requests.get(url)
	for line in req.text.split('\n')[1:]:
		if line.strip() == '': continue
		cols = [c.strip('\"') for c in line.split('","')]
		symbol = cols[0]
		name = cols[1]
		link = cols[8]
		stk = Stock(exchange, symbol, name, link)
		stocks.append(stk)

stocks.sort()
for i in range(len(stocks)):
	print i+1, stocks[i]