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
20 Jul 30, 2022
3 Feb 27, 2022
3 Feb 13, 2022
3 Oct 14, 2022
2 Apr 11, 2022
6 Dec 21, 2022
1 Dec 12, 2021
6 Aug 10, 2022
27 Dec 18, 2022
25 Oct 31, 2022
11 May 06, 2022
15 Sep 01, 2022
10 Aug 07, 2022
11 Nov 15, 2021
229 Dec 12, 2022
17 Jan 05, 2023
118 Dec 16, 2022
4 Apr 23, 2022
10 Jul 06, 2022
1 Dec 05, 2021