Provides a flexible interface to the ‘Financial Modeling Prep’ API. The package supports all available endpoints and parameters, enabling R users to interact with a wide range of financial data.
This package is a product of Christoph Scheuch and not sponsored by or
affiliated with FMP in any way. For a Python implementation, please
consider the py-fmpapi
library.
You can install the package from CRAN via:
install.packages("fmpapi")You can install the development version from GitHub:
pak::pak("tidy-finance/r-fmpapi")Before using the package, you need to set your Financial Modeling Prep
API key. You can set it using the fmp_set_api_key() function, which
saves the key to your .Renviron file for future use (either in your
project or home folder).
library(fmpapi)
fmp_set_api_key()Since the FMP API has a myriad of endpoints and parameters, the package
provides a single function to handle requests: fmp_get().
You can retrieve a company’s profile by providing its stock symbol to
the profile endpoint:
fmp_get(resource = "profile", symbol = "AAPL")To retrieve the balance sheet statements for a company, use the
balance-sheet-statement endpoint. You can specify whether to retrieve
annual or quarterly data using the period parameter and the number of
records via limit. Note that you need a paid account for quarterly
data.
fmp_get(resource = "balance-sheet-statement", symbol = "AAPL", params = list(period = "annual", limit = 5))The income-statement endpoint allows you to retrieve income statements
for a specific stock symbol.
fmp_get(resource = "income-statement", symbol = "AAPL")You can fetch cash flow statements using the cash-flow-statement
endpoint.
fmp_get(resource = "cash-flow-statement", symbol = "AAPL")Most free endpoints live under API version 3, but you can also control
the api version in fmp_get(), which you need for some paid endpoints.
For instance, the symbol_change endpoint:
fmp_get(resource = "symbol_change", api_version = "v4")There are two existing R packages that also provide an interface to the FMP API. Both packages lack flexibility because they provide dedicated functions for each endpoint, which means that users need to study both the FMP API docs and the package documentation and developers have to create new functions for each new endpoint.
- fmpapi: not released on CRAN and last commit more than 3 years ago.
- fmpcloudr: last updated on CRAN more than 3 years ago.
Feel free to open issues or submit pull requests to improve the package. Contributions are welcome!
This package is licensed under the MIT License.