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
4 Nov 09, 2022
7 Oct 23, 2022
13 Oct 15, 2022
347 Jan 07, 2023
1 Jan 31, 2022
1 Nov 17, 2022
2 Dec 15, 2022
4 Apr 01, 2022
3 Feb 27, 2022
1.8k Dec 31, 2022
1 Jan 06, 2022
1 Jan 10, 2022
4 Jun 12, 2022
321 Dec 12, 2022
2 Feb 22, 2022
8.7k Jan 05, 2023
1 Jan 06, 2022
38 Nov 05, 2022
95 Jan 07, 2023