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
4.3k Jan 07, 2023
73 Dec 03, 2022
4 Jul 26, 2022
3 Apr 15, 2022
2 Nov 26, 2021
2 Dec 22, 2021
1 Jan 10, 2022
2 Nov 01, 2021
1 Jan 31, 2022
35 Aug 29, 2022
6 Aug 10, 2022
50 Jan 05, 2023
798 Dec 29, 2022
2 Oct 05, 2022
1 Jan 06, 2022
1 Dec 12, 2021
18 Dec 14, 2022
2 Jun 06, 2022
118 Dec 16, 2022