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
0 Nov 17, 2021
73 Dec 03, 2022
1 Feb 11, 2022
10 Jul 03, 2022
2 Jan 24, 2022
1 Dec 05, 2021
0 Sep 30, 2021
46 Dec 16, 2022
2 Aug 03, 2022
3 Sep 08, 2021
2.1k Jan 06, 2023
12 Oct 22, 2022
1 Aug 27, 2022
3 Feb 04, 2022
105 Dec 29, 2022
280 Dec 30, 2022
1 Jan 23, 2022
575 Dec 28, 2022
2 Mar 12, 2022
0 Jan 22, 2022