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
8 Oct 27, 2022
1 Sep 05, 2021
1.1k Dec 17, 2022
47 Nov 23, 2022
6 Dec 21, 2022
2 Oct 05, 2022
3 Feb 10, 2022
3 Feb 10, 2022
3 Oct 04, 2022
5 Nov 22, 2022
28 Dec 08, 2022
73 Dec 03, 2022
2 Nov 26, 2021
16 Sep 17, 2022
10 Aug 18, 2022
3 May 31, 2022
1 Dec 07, 2021
3.2k Dec 29, 2022
1 Feb 17, 2022
3 Sep 09, 2022