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
44 Oct 18, 2022
1 Oct 05, 2021
1 Oct 20, 2021
2k May 06, 2021
0 Jun 17, 2021
1 Dec 07, 2021
5 Nov 25, 2021
1.5k Jan 04, 2023
2 Jan 11, 2022
25 Oct 31, 2022
3 Jun 04, 2022
2 Jan 15, 2022
6 Nov 07, 2022
1 Oct 24, 2021
0 Sep 30, 2021
0 Jan 06, 2022
5 Jul 08, 2022
56 Nov 27, 2022
859 Dec 29, 2022
2 Dec 27, 2021