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
1 Jan 24, 2022
15 Nov 24, 2022
7 Nov 27, 2022
334 Jan 01, 2023
1 Dec 05, 2021
9 Apr 16, 2022
3 Feb 10, 2022
3 Oct 21, 2021
3 Oct 04, 2022
1 Jan 10, 2022
3 Dec 07, 2021
3 Jan 02, 2022
3.2k Dec 29, 2022
1.8k Dec 31, 2022
1 Jan 25, 2022
2 Jan 28, 2022
35 Nov 18, 2022
11 Nov 15, 2021
2 Jan 15, 2022