How do I get the credit-quality breakdown of a bond fund by ISIN?
Rating-bucket weights (AAA, AA, A, BBB, high yield…) and maturity buckets of any bond fund from its ISIN as JSON: data.creditQuality and data.maturity.Updated 12 September 2026 · by FundFacts APIShort answer
Call GET https://fundfactsapi.com/api/v1/funds/{isin} with a bearer API key and read data.creditQuality in the JSON response (related fields: data.maturity, data.instrument). Buckets are read from the factsheet with the fund house's own labels (some use "AAA / AA / A / BBB / BB and below", some "Investment grade / High yield"). The Free plan gives 15 lookups a month with no card, and the keyless demo endpoint shows the shape for an already-loaded fund.
Where it is in the response
| Path | Type | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
data.creditQuality | Array<{ label, weight }> | Weights by rating bucket as printed. |
data.maturity | Array<{ label, weight }> | Weights by maturity bucket (0–1 y, 1–3 y…). |
data.instrument | Array<{ label, weight }> | Weights by instrument type (government, corporate, securitised…). |
data.profile.creditQuality | "high" or "medium" or "low" or null | Derived: AAA–A ≥60% high; investment grade ≥80% medium; else low. |
Sample for iShares Core MSCI World UCITS ETF (IE00B4L5Y983):
json"creditQuality": [{ "label": "AAA", "weight": 12.4 },{ "label": "AA", "weight": 31.9 },{ "label": "A", "weight": 28.6 },{ "label": "BBB", "weight": 24.1 },{ "label": "Below BBB", "weight": 1.8 }],"profile": { "creditQuality": "high" }
Where the figure comes from
Buckets are read from the factsheet with the fund house's own labels (some use "AAA / AA / A / BBB / BB and below", some "Investment grade / High yield"). profile.creditQuality normalises them into one of three bands so filters work across issuers.
The request
bashcurl -s --max-time 300 https://fundfactsapi.com/api/v1/funds/IE00B4L5Y983 \-H "Authorization: Bearer $FUNDFACTS_API_KEY" | jq '.data.creditQuality'
pythonimport os, requestsr = requests.get("https://fundfactsapi.com/api/v1/funds/IE00B4L5Y983",headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['FUNDFACTS_API_KEY']}"}, timeout=300)fund = r.json()print(fund["name"], fund['data']['creditQuality'])
javascriptconst res = await fetch("https://fundfactsapi.com/api/v1/funds/IE00B4L5Y983", {headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.FUNDFACTS_API_KEY}` },signal: AbortSignal.timeout(300_000),});const fund = await res.json();console.log(fund.name, fund.data.creditQuality);
Sign up at fundfactsapi.com/signup for a key; the Free plan is 15 lookups a month with no card. Without a key, GET https://fundfactsapi.com/api/v1/demo/funds/IE00B4L5Y983 returns the same payload for funds already in the store (30 calls a minute per IP; it never loads a new fund).
Caveats
- Rating methodology (which agencies, lowest-of or middle-of) is the fund house's choice and is not harmonised.
- Unrated and cash lines appear as printed.
Several funds at once
POST /funds with { "isins": ["…", "…"], "wait": true } returns the same payload for up to 10 ISINs per call on Starter, 50 on Pro and 200 on Scale. One request is counted per ISIN answered. X-RateLimit-Remaining on every response tells you how many are left this month; a 429 rate_limited response carries Retry-After. Search and /me are free.
A fund nobody has requested in the last 24 hours is loaded on demand from the documents the fund house publishes. That first call takes 15 seconds to about 3 minutes; set your client timeout to 300 seconds and do not fire a second request for the same ISIN while the first is running. Every later call within 24 hours returns from the store in well under a second with cached: true.
Everything else in the payload is listed in the field reference.
Verify it yourself
The demo endpoint returns the live payload for a fund that is already in the store, without a key. Everything on this page can be checked against it.bashcurl -s https://fundfactsapi.com/api/v1/demo/funds/IE00B4L5Y983 | jq '{name, asOf: .data.dataAsOf, ter: .data.headlineMetrics.ter, risk: .data.riskRating, top: .data.topHoldings[:3]}'