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
1.1k Dec 17, 2022
1.6k Jan 01, 2023
1 Dec 30, 2021
3.2k Dec 29, 2022
21 Sep 29, 2022
1 Jan 06, 2022
9 Apr 06, 2022
2 Mar 12, 2022
1 Nov 14, 2021
0 Nov 22, 2021
1 Jan 06, 2022
3 Jul 08, 2022
3 Feb 18, 2022
13 Oct 15, 2022
3 Jan 02, 2022
15 Jun 08, 2022
4.8k Jan 04, 2023
173 Dec 05, 2022
2 Nov 01, 2021
0 Jan 22, 2022