How do I get a fund's name from its ISIN?

Where it is in the response

Sample for iShares Core MSCI World UCITS ETF (IE00B4L5Y983):

json
{
  "isin": "IE00B4L5Y983",
  "name": "iShares Core MSCI World UCITS ETF",
  "data": { "shareClass": "USD Acc", "keyFacts": { "currency": "USD", "manager": "ETF" }, "structure": "ETF" }
}

Where the figure comes from

The name is read from the fund house's product page and matches the share-class name in the prospectus. The reverse direction, name to ISIN, is GET /search?q=msci world; it is free and returns issuer, currency, share class and distribution policy per result so you can pick the right class before spending a request.

The request

bash
curl -s --max-time 300 https://fundfactsapi.com/api/v1/funds/IE00B4L5Y983 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FUNDFACTS_API_KEY" | jq '.name'

python
import os, requests
r = 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['name'])

javascript
const 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.name);

Sign up at fundfactsapi.com/signup for a key; the Free plan is 5 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

• Search covers funds that have already been loaded by someone; a fund nobody has requested yet is found by ISIN, not by name.
• For a stock, bond or index ISIN the answer is 404 fund_not_found: the API only knows funds.

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 fund found. 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 never loaded before is read 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 returns from the store in well under a second with cached: true; past 24 hours the payload comes back flagged stale: true while a refresh runs in the background, and nothing older than 7 days is served without a new read.

Everything else in the payload is listed in the field reference.