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
6 Dec 10, 2022
1 Jan 02, 2022
17 Jan 05, 2023
1 Dec 20, 2021
3 Oct 21, 2021
2 Oct 31, 2022
3 Feb 13, 2022
3 Feb 17, 2022
0 Jan 07, 2022
71 Oct 04, 2022
2 Feb 13, 2022
1.6k Jan 01, 2023
1 Dec 30, 2021
1.5k Dec 24, 2022
1 Jan 12, 2022
2.1k Jan 06, 2023
53 Dec 16, 2022
112 Nov 12, 2022
212 Nov 05, 2022
15 Jun 08, 2022