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Securities firm master

Securities firm master

ReferenceSource: TWSE·Plan: free·Cost: 1 credits·GET /v2/datasets/securities-firm-master

Securities firm master is a Taiwan market dataset sourced from TWSE, served by TW Market Data as GET /v2/datasets/securities-firm-master.

Overview

Securities firm master — grain: broker_id.

FieldTypeDescription
broker_idstringBroker id
broker_namestringBroker name
tax_idstring
region_codestring
phonestring
faxstring
settlement_bankstring
business_statusnullBusiness status
business_typestring
chairmanstring
general_managerstring
admin_addressstring
notestring
registered_capital_knumberRegistered capital (NT$ thousand)
paid_capital_knumber
operating_capital_knumber
report_datestring
change_datestring
margin_start_datestring
established_datestring
business_start_datestring
marketstring
business_itemsarrayBusiness items

Example response

A real response from this endpoint. Rows are returned under "data", and provenance is carried in the shape shown below — it is not identical across datasets, so read this page's rather than assuming another's.

{  "dataset_id": "securities_firm_master",  "request_context": {    "scope": "twse_securities_firm_master_only",    "coverage_type": "current_snapshot_reference_master",    "filters": {      "broker_id": "1020",      "limit": 50    }  },  "quality": {    "row_count": 1,    "firm_count": 1,    "sensitive_fields_exposed": false  },  "lineage": {    "source_families": [      "TWSE_T187AP18"    ],    "semantics": "<Chinese value - see the zh page>"  },  "error": null,  "data": [    {      "broker_id": "1020",      "broker_name": "<Chinese value - see the zh page>",      "tax_id": "53021481",      "region_code": "<Chinese value - see the zh page>",      "phone": "02-27528000",      "fax": "02-27526060",      "settlement_bank": "<Chinese value - see the zh page>",      "business_status": null,      "business_type": "<Chinese value - see the zh page>",      "chairman": "<Chinese value - see the zh page>",      "general_manager": "<Chinese value - see the zh page>",      "admin_address": "<Chinese value - see the zh page>",      "note": "<Chinese value - see the zh page>",      "registered_capital_k": 3000000,      "paid_capital_k": 5206132,      "operating_capital_k": 0,      "report_date": "2026-08-05",      "change_date": "2026-05-29",      "margin_start_date": "2011-12-02",      "established_date": "2011-12-02",      "business_start_date": "2011-12-02",      "market": "TWSE",      "source_family": "TWSE_T187AP18",      "business_items": [],      "lineage": {        "grain": "firm_master",        "source": "TWSE_openapi_t187ap18",        "emitter": "build_securities_firm_master_candidates"      }    }  ],  "data_count": 1,  "known_gaps": [    "firm_level_master_not_branch_level",    "current_snapshot_reference_master",    "not_investment_advice"  ],  "warnings": [    "not_investment_advice"  ],  "envelope": {    "dataset_id": "securities_firm_master",    "scope": "twse_securities_firm_master_only",    "row_count": 1  }}

Captured from the live API on 2026-07-20.

Chinese data values are shown as a marker here so this page stays in English; the /zh page shows them verbatim.

Provenance

These columns are returned alongside the data and record where the row came from. They are provenance, not the dataset's subject matter, so they are listed here rather than in the field table.

source_familylineage

Getting started

  1. Put your key in the X-API-Key header.
  2. Add query parameters (symbol, date range, limit).
  3. Send the request and read the data array.
curl "https://api.twmarketdata.com/v2/datasets/securities-firm-master?symbol=2330" \  -H "X-API-Key: sk_live_..."

Filtering

ParameterRequiredTypeDescription
symbolNostringTicker to filter to a single security.
limitNointegerMaximum rows to return.

Python

A first call:

import requests resp = requests.get(    "https://api.twmarketdata.com/v2/datasets/securities-firm-master",    params={"symbol": "2330"},    headers={"X-API-Key": "sk_live_..."},)resp.raise_for_status()print(resp.json()["data"])

With a date-range filter:

import requests # The full verified example — the same call with every supported filter set.resp = requests.get(    "https://api.twmarketdata.com/v2/datasets/securities-firm-master",    params={"symbol": "2330"},    headers={"X-API-Key": "sk_live_..."},)resp.raise_for_status()for row in resp.json()["data"]:    print(row)

OpenAPI

This endpoint is GET /v2/datasets/securities-firm-master. The full machine-readable schema (parameters, security, response envelope) lives in the OpenAPI spec.