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 Jun 12, 2022
16 Aug 02, 2022
2 Jul 22, 2022
13 Dec 27, 2022
105 Dec 29, 2022
347 Jan 07, 2023
5 Nov 19, 2021
5 Jan 04, 2022
3 Jan 20, 2022
37 Sep 08, 2022
1 Jul 04, 2022
2 Dec 15, 2022
48 Jan 03, 2023
6 Nov 21, 2022
1 Jan 25, 2022
2.6k Dec 28, 2022
3 Feb 13, 2022
28 Oct 10, 2022
0 Jul 04, 2021
0 Jan 22, 2022