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
229 Dec 12, 2022
4 Nov 18, 2022
151 Dec 23, 2022
28 Oct 10, 2022
5 Oct 27, 2022
73 Dec 03, 2022
39 Dec 28, 2022
213 Nov 12, 2022
0 Dec 06, 2021
1 Dec 26, 2021
15 Jun 08, 2022
1 Nov 14, 2021
280 Dec 30, 2022
321 Dec 12, 2022
2.9k Jan 03, 2023
334 Jan 01, 2023
1.8k Dec 31, 2022
2k Dec 28, 2022
15 Dec 05, 2021
457 Jan 05, 2023