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
2.9k Jan 03, 2023
11 May 06, 2022
4 May 27, 2022
0 Jul 04, 2021
4 Dec 03, 2022
1 Nov 23, 2021
0 Sep 30, 2021
1 Dec 03, 2022
16 Dec 26, 2022
457 Jan 05, 2023
2 Dec 27, 2021
33 Sep 03, 2022
150 Oct 15, 2022
1 Jan 14, 2022
2 Nov 26, 2021
21 Sep 29, 2022
45 Dec 30, 2022
199 Dec 12, 2022
212 Nov 05, 2022