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+"""Seeking Alpha Utilities."""
+
+from datetime import timedelta
+
+from openbb_core.provider.utils.helpers import amake_request
+
+HEADERS = {
+    "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:106.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/106.0",
+    "Accept": "*/*",
+    "Accept-Language": "de,en-US;q=0.7,en;q=0.3",
+    "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, br",
+    "Sec-Fetch-Dest": "empty",
+    "Sec-Fetch-Mode": "cors",
+    "Sec-Fetch-Site": "same-origin",
+    "Connection": "keep-alive",
+}
+
+
+def date_range(start_date, end_date):
+    """Yield dates between start_date and end_date."""
+    for n in range(int((end_date - start_date).days) + 1):
+        yield start_date + timedelta(n)
+
+
+async def get_seekingalpha_id(symbol: str) -> str:
+    """Map a ticker symbol to its Seeking Alpha ID."""
+    url = "https://seekingalpha.com/api/v3/searches"
+    querystring = {
+        "filter[type]": "symbols",
+        "filter[list]": "all",
+        "page[size]": "100",
+    }
+    querystring["filter[query]"] = symbol
+    payload = ""
+    response = await amake_request(
+        url, data=payload, headers=HEADERS, params=querystring
+    )
+    ids = response.get("symbols")  # type: ignore
+
+    return str(ids[0].get("id", ""))