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JO1902
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Apr 21, 2026

Api in every row of excel.

Hi 

 

Currently I have an excel file with the following columns.

 

MFund Code     I Bought at    I Mutual fund name       I latest Price     

112092              I 100.00         I Fidelity world fund      I 112.00           I         100.00

56432                I 25.00           I Stanley index fund       I 20.00            I           25.00

 

There is a website which provides access to latest price through API. 

There arre many Mfundcodes so I use a text file to be read in a python program and extract the data. 

Following is the main part of the program. 

for x in f:

# Add number variable to the api call

   x = x[:6]

   api = f"https://api.mfapi.in/mf/{x}/latest"

# Get text data from api call

   idata = requests.get(api).text;

  # Convert json data into dictionary format

   d = json.loads(idata)

# Get the first record of data

      if not d['data']:

           exit

   else:

      l = d['data'][0]

      k.write(f"{x} {l['nav']} {l['date']} \n")

 

Later I import this text file into the excel for further calculations. 

 

I was wondering if there is a way to have these values load into the excel columns 

regards

Jyothsna

1 Reply

  • m_tarler's avatar
    m_tarler
    Silver Contributor

    you can use Excel built in tools to pull the data.  you can create an external link using Data->get data from webpage and pull a table of data but not sure how well that would work here.

    alternatively, you can also use inline formula like this:

    =--TEXTBEFORE(TEXTAFTER(WEBSERVICE("https://api.mfapi.in/mf/"&$A2&"/latest"),"nav"":"""),"""}],")

    where A2 is where the Mfund Code is located

    NOTE: I do NOT see that Stanley Index fund anywhere in that api