Find tickers

Resolve a ticker symbol, issuer name, or alternate security identifier without returning entity candidates.

GET/api/resolve/ticker

Authorizations

Bearer

Authorizationstringrequiredheader

Required Bearer API key. Programmatic access to the World API needs a key; browsing nosible.world in a browser does not.

Example: Bearer nos_sk_...

Parameters

query & path

qstringrequiredquery

Ticker symbol, issuer name, or alternate security identifier.

Example: NVDA

limitintegerquery

Maximum number of ticker candidates; defaults to 10 and is capped at 50.

Example: 3

How to use this endpoint

guidance

Use the ticker resolver when the input is a symbol, issuer name, or alternate security identifier. Each result includes the same profile metadata as Ticker Profile.

Response body

application/json

These are the fields you can build against. Nested names use dot notation; optional sections are called out in their descriptions.

schemastring

Stable resolver contract identifier.

Example: nosible_world_resolve_v1

qstring

Original ticker lookup query.

Example: NVDA

countinteger

Number of ticker candidates returned.

Example: 1

resultsobject[]

Ranked ticker candidates with type, profile, metadata, reference, filter, and events URL.

Example: [{ kind, type, ticker, name, profile, metadata, reference, events_url, filter }]

as_ofobject

Index build and archive cutoff used for the lookup.

Example: { "archive_cutoff": "2026-09-16" }

Responses and errors

HTTP

200Request succeeded. The response body is shown in the panel on the right.

400invalid_request — The date, filter, cursor, identifier, or request combination is invalid.

403access_denied — The requested archive date is outside the caller's World tier.

404not_found — The requested date, entity, ticker, or event does not exist in the accessible index.

410cursor_expired — The cursor was minted against a replaced index build. Restart pagination from the first page.

429rate_limited — The request exceeded the endpoint or account rate limit. Respect Retry-After when supplied.

501backend_not_configured — The World backend is not configured for this deployment.

502backend_error — The BFF could not obtain a valid response from the World backend.

504backend_timeout — The World backend or an upstream data source timed out.

404unknown_entity_or_ticker — No ticker candidate matched the query within the resolver's accessible universe.