Building MutualFund data via Zerodha’s API

Problem Statement

Unable to build a catalogue of mutual funds for my project as no vendor provides a list consisting of details that can be used as a catalogue for free.

What’s the project?

A few Moons back I started constructing a P2P lending platform where folks join as a group and pool their money and a representative uses the collected fund to invest in Stocks, Crypto, Precious Metals and other ways for money to grow. Find the ERD of the project and code here.

We have a catalogue for cryptocurrencies as many third parties provide for them but nothing such as mutual funds. So we made an inhouse solution using Zerodha’s Kite APIs

How Zerodha is linked

Zerodha did a great job by providing a few APIs using the Kite platform, these APIs are great for fetching fund details, portfolio analysis, mutual funds data, etc.

Why not use Zerodha’s API for mutual funds data?

Well, the problem is very simple and plain, the data is sent in CSV format. This means there are some around 5k data present in CSV, one way to navigate is to render this on the frontend anyhow, well this is possible but how to apply filters, sort or in fact pagination in this case?

Sample data from the…