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
2.1k Jan 06, 2023
0 Nov 17, 2021
17 Jan 05, 2023
1 Jan 06, 2022
2 Dec 13, 2021
35 Nov 18, 2022
1 Jan 31, 2022
11 Nov 13, 2022
1 Jan 06, 2022
45 Dec 30, 2022
68 Oct 08, 2022
12 Dec 19, 2022
129 Dec 14, 2022
1.5k Jan 04, 2023
2 Jan 07, 2022
1 Nov 23, 2021
2k May 06, 2021
12 Oct 28, 2022
14 Dec 09, 2022
1 Oct 27, 2021