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On the NICAR-L mailing list, Matt Kiefer asked:
Is there a resource to look up the Standard Industrial Classification codes that companies file with the SEC? (They don't use NAICS.)
I need a few hundred so I'm looking for a bulk solution, e.g. an API or a web form that would accept many comma-separated tickers. Not gonna look these up individually on sec.gov.
On the NICAR-L mailing list, Tim Henderson pointed to an HTML listing, at http://www.sec.gov/divisions/corpfin/organization/cfia.shtml
Matt scraped the data and posted it as a Google document.
Matt Jacob pointed to another potentially useful resource, a listing of what the SIC codes actually mean.
I scraped the SEC data at http://www.sec.gov/divisions/corpfin/organization/cfia.shtml and uploaded it as a Google Spreadsheet.
Since that page is dated 2006, it may not be necessary to run the scraper again any time soon, or if the data is updated, the scraper may not work any more, but here is the python script for reference. It requires the BeautifulSoup4 library.
