> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.secapi.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# GET /v1/market/universe

> Browse the full ticker universe with pagination, filtering by exchange, type, sector, industry, and search

Browse the full ticker universe with pagination, filtering by exchange, type, sector, industry, and search

<Info>
  Audience: application and coding agent.
</Info>

## Canonical metadata

* `requestId`
* `traceparent`
* `provenance`
* `freshness`
* `materialization`

## Example request

<RequestExample>
  ```bash theme={null}
  curl -X GET \
    -H "x-api-key: $SECAPI_API_KEY" \
    -H "secapi-version: 2026-03-19" \
    "https://api.secapi.ai/v1/market/universe"
  ```
</RequestExample>

## Example response

<ResponseExample>
  ```json theme={null}
  {
    "requestId": "req_2ZK8Q1W9F4M6P7R3",
    "provenance": {
      "source": "sec",
      "accessionNumber": "0000320193-25-000079",
      "filingUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019325000079/aapl-20250927_htm.xml",
      "retrievedAt": "2026-03-17T00:00:00.000Z",
      "parserVersion": "2026-03-13.5",
      "rawSourceKey": "0000320193-25-000079"
    },
    "freshness": {
      "status": "fresh",
      "asOf": "2026-03-17T00:00:00.000Z",
      "sourcePublishedAt": "2025-10-31T00:00:00.000Z",
      "lagMs": 900000
    },
    "materialization": {
      "parserVersion": "2026-03-13.5",
      "materializationVersion": "datastream-3.0"
    }
  }
  ```
</ResponseExample>

## Give this prompt to your agent

<Prompt>
  Use SEC API GET /v1/market/universe to browse the full ticker universe with pagination, filtering by exchange, type, sector, industry, and search. Preserve `requestId`, `traceparent`, `provenance`, `freshness`, `materialization` in the output. Return a concise markdown summary plus the exact structured payload fields that a downstream engineer or agent should keep using this result.
</Prompt>

## Failure posture

* treat non-2xx responses as contract-aware failures, not free-form errors
* preserve `requestId` and `traceparent` in logs and downstream reports
* if provenance or freshness metadata is present, return it unchanged so trust is not lost in the handoff