stefanthoss

import re
import requests

DEFAULT_TICKERS = ["BBRY", "VOD", "T", "S"]
URL = "http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?CIK={}&Find=Search&owner=exclude&action=getcompany"
CIK_RE = re.compile(r".*CIK=(\d{10}).*")

cik_dict = {}
for ticker in DEFAULT_TICKERS:
    results = CIK_RE.findall(requests.get(URL.format(ticker)).content.decode("ascii"))