yahoostock
A package designed to scrape data from Yahoo Finance.
Installation
The most simple installation method is through PIP.
pip install yahoostock
The PyPI page can be found here.
Usage
Use the following code to see a list of useful methods.
from yahoostock import yahoo
print(dir(yahoo))
Note that each method accepts a stock ticker as a single parameter and returns a float with the specified statistic.
Here's an example:
from yahoostock import yahoo
stock_name = "GOOGL"
function_list = [
yahoo.get_price,
yahoo.get_open,
yahoo.get_previous_close,
yahoo.get_change,
yahoo.get_percent_change
]
for function in function_list:
# prints price ($), opening price (%), last closing price ($),
# change in price ($), and relative change (%)
print(function(stock_name))
0 Jan 22, 2022
1 Oct 23, 2021
1 Oct 29, 2021
1 Oct 29, 2021
1 Mar 18, 2022
0 Jul 23, 2022
2 Dec 23, 2021
2 Dec 22, 2021
5 Jun 23, 2022
1 Dec 02, 2022
590 Jan 03, 2023
0 Jan 07, 2022
7 Dec 03, 2022
46 Nov 22, 2022
6 Dec 21, 2022
1 Nov 10, 2021
32 Oct 10, 2022
15 May 17, 2022
5 Jul 08, 2022
1 Nov 13, 2021
95 Jan 07, 2023
50 Jan 05, 2023
295 Dec 31, 2022
5 Nov 19, 2021
2.1k Jan 06, 2023
1 Nov 14, 2021
79 Nov 27, 2022
15 Dec 06, 2022