# Databento Symbology API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/databento/databento-symbology-api/  
**Provider:** Databento — https://apis.io/providers/databento/  
**Base URL:** https://hist.databento.com/v0  
**Documentation:** https://databento.com/docs/api-reference-historical/basics/symbology

Databento Symbology API is one of 7 APIs that [Databento](https://apis.io/providers/databento/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Symbology, Reference Data, Symbols, Market Data, and Financial Data. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and an OpenAPI specification.

Resolves symbols between Databento's symbology systems - raw symbol, instrument ID, parent, and continuous contract - for a dataset over a date range. Lets consumers map tickers, exchange instrument IDs, and continuous futures references onto the identifiers used across the historical and live data schemas.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **Documentation** — https://databento.com/docs/api-reference-historical/basics/symbology
- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/databento/refs/heads/main/openapi/databento-symbology-api-openapi.yml
- **PostmanCollection** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/databento/refs/heads/main/collections/databento.postman_collection.json
- **OpenCollection** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/databento/refs/heads/main/collections/databento.opencollection.json

## Other Databento APIs (6)

- [Databento Historical Timeseries API](https://apis.io/apis/databento/databento-historical-timeseries-api/)
- [Databento Metadata API](https://apis.io/apis/databento/databento-metadata-api/)
- [Databento Batch API](https://apis.io/apis/databento/databento-batch-api/)
- [Databento Live Streaming API](https://apis.io/apis/databento/databento-live-streaming-api/)
- [Databento Reference API](https://apis.io/apis/databento/databento-reference-api/)
- [Databento OpenAPI specification](https://apis.io/apis/databento/databento-platform-openapi-official/)

## Tags

Symbology, Reference Data, Symbols, Market Data, Financial Data

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