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
3 Jan 02, 2022
19 Dec 07, 2022
5 Oct 27, 2022
16 Sep 17, 2022
2 Dec 27, 2021
1 Oct 26, 2021
5 Nov 24, 2022
1 Oct 20, 2021
2 Feb 22, 2022
27 Dec 18, 2022
0 Jun 17, 2021
6 May 02, 2022
185 Jul 23, 2022
19 Sep 11, 2022
53 Dec 21, 2022
18 Dec 14, 2022
16 Oct 08, 2022
4 Aug 29, 2022
3 Feb 10, 2022
3.7k Dec 27, 2022