# MT5 Python symbols_get()

Independent and unofficial. Not affiliated with or endorsed by any broker or platform named here. Educational only: nothing here is advice, and nothing here recommends a broker or a trade.

This is the markdown version of https://openbrokerapi.com/platforms/metatrader-5/functions/python-symbols-get, written from the same records as that page.

Risk warning: CFDs and spread bets are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. You can lose money on these products, and each provider publishes its own loss figure under FCA rules. You should consider whether you understand how they work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money. Automated and API trading can amplify losses through bugs, connectivity failures and runaway orders.

Returns the financial instruments in the terminal, all of them or those whose names match a filter.

- Function: `symbols_get()`
- Interface: MetaTrader5 Python package
- Group: Symbols
- Status: verified. Source: [mql5.com](https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/python_metatrader5/mt5symbolsget_py), checked 2026-10-12.

This is a Python function, not an HTTP endpoint. It has no method, no path and no address to send a request to: the package talks to a MetaTrader 5 terminal running on the same computer. It is in no OpenAPI file on this site and the request builder does not list it.

## Signature

The form of the call on the vendor's page, with the vendor's comments taken out.

```python
symbols_get(
  group="GROUP"
)
```

## Arguments

- `group` (type not stated, optional): A filter on symbol names. The page describes it as comma separated conditions, where \* is a wildcard and a leading ! excludes, applied in the order given. It can be passed with or without its name. Left out, every symbol is returned.

## Return value

- Type: `tuple or None`
- What comes back: One entry per symbol. On failure the page says it returns None, and that last_error() gives the reason.

## Sample

Written by this site from the signature and arguments recorded on this page. It has not been run against a terminal, a server or an account, and the values in it are placeholders. No credential is typed into it: where one is needed it is read from an environment variable on your own machine. Nothing is entered on this site.

```python
import MetaTrader5 as mt5

if not mt5.initialize():
    raise SystemExit(f"initialize() failed: {mt5.last_error()}")

# Symbols whose name contains EUR, leaving out those that contain GBP.
symbols = mt5.symbols_get(group="*EUR*,!*GBP*")
if symbols is not None:
    for s in symbols:
        print(s.name)

mt5.shutdown()
```

## Related MT5 Python functions: Symbols

- [symbol_info()](https://openbrokerapi.com/platforms/metatrader-5/functions/python-symbol-info): Returns the terminal's data on one financial instrument: its contract and dealing properties as well as its latest prices.
- [symbol_info_tick()](https://openbrokerapi.com/platforms/metatrader-5/functions/python-symbol-info-tick): Returns the last tick the terminal has for one financial instrument.
- [symbol_select()](https://openbrokerapi.com/platforms/metatrader-5/functions/python-symbol-select): Adds a financial instrument to the terminal's Market Watch window, or removes it.
- [symbols_total()](https://openbrokerapi.com/platforms/metatrader-5/functions/python-symbols-total): Returns how many financial instruments the terminal holds.

## More on MetaTrader 5

- [All MetaTrader 5 functions](https://openbrokerapi.com/platforms/metatrader-5/functions): 78 documented here, grouped by what they do.
- [Instrument search: the call at each API](https://openbrokerapi.com/endpoints/instrument-search): The same job at every broker and platform API recorded here, HTTP or not.
- [MetaTrader 5 API quickstart](https://openbrokerapi.com/platforms/metatrader-5/quickstart)
- [All MetaTrader 5 error codes](https://openbrokerapi.com/errors/mt5)
- [MetaTrader 5 API page](https://openbrokerapi.com/platforms/metatrader-5): The full record: access, authentication, limits and the source for each.

## Licence and how to cite

The records behind this page are all rights reserved. This file is the page itself, at its own address, in another format. It is not part of the CC BY 4.0 downloads listed at https://openbrokerapi.com/data. Quote from it with a link to the page.

Cite as: MT5 Python symbols_get(). Broker API Hub, https://openbrokerapi.com/platforms/metatrader-5/functions/python-symbols-get, newest check 2026-10-12.

Where you rely on a single figure, cite the source and the checked date printed beside it as well. Where this page and a broker's own documentation differ, the documentation wins.