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 Nov 10, 2021
575 Dec 28, 2022
3 Apr 15, 2022
2 Jan 04, 2022
112 Nov 12, 2022
2 Mar 12, 2022
87 Jan 06, 2023
22 Nov 21, 2022
1.8k Mar 18, 2022
0 Nov 22, 2021
1 Oct 24, 2021
1 Nov 17, 2022
2 Apr 29, 2022
2 Nov 26, 2021
570 Dec 19, 2022
1 Dec 07, 2021
39 Dec 28, 2022
14 Aug 12, 2022
1 Dec 05, 2021
1 Nov 14, 2021