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 Nov 16, 2021
1 Jul 09, 2022
8 Aug 07, 2022
8.7k Jan 05, 2023
1 Dec 26, 2021
4 Jun 02, 2022
3 Feb 10, 2022
798 Dec 29, 2022
50 Jan 05, 2023
0 Dec 15, 2021
1 Jul 04, 2022
2.2k Jan 05, 2023
229 Dec 12, 2022
22 Nov 21, 2022
11 Sep 09, 2022
1 Jan 14, 2022
32 Dec 31, 2022
1 Oct 24, 2021
0 Jun 17, 2021
1 Jan 24, 2022