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Overview
The FactSet Search Answers API provides answers to search queries, reflecting the data shown within FactSet Search Answers, and allowing you to easily add financial data to your widgets, lookups, bots, and assistants. The API understands a fixed amount of search terms and returns structured data from FactSet’s many data sources. Possible answers include Price of a Company, Top 10 Year-to-Date Gainers, Revenue per Passenger Mile, and many more.
API Definition
API Documentation
Changelog
1.0.0
Summary
- Product: Factset Search Answers
- Version: 1.0.0
- Date: 2020-06-04
Functionality Additions
- API provides answers to search queries, reflecting the data shown within FactSet Search Answers, and allowing you to easily add financial data to your widgets, lookups, bots, and assistants
- This api endpoint could only return the response to the following requests:
- Fetch FactSet answer in data format, and
- Fetch FactSet answer in Adaptive Card format
- This api endpoint could only return the response to the following requests:
Bug Fixes
- fix: moving back template field to outermost object
1.1.0
Summary
- Product: Factset Search Answers
- Version: 1.1.0
- Date: 2023-11-09
Changes
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Enable dark/light mode option for adaptive card API
- We have enabled dark/light mode option for the adaptive card response so that users can customize the charting themes
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Consumer/Product Logging Field for Answers API
- answerResponseFormat: To differentiate between different answer format requests, we're logging this field. Values: (Data, AdaptiveCard, MessageML)
- consumingApplication: To track usage of apps consuming AnswersApi
- hostPath: In addition to answerResponseFormat, it helps in identifying the different versions