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
704 Jan 06, 2023
28 Dec 20, 2022
3 Apr 15, 2022
212 Nov 05, 2022
3 Dec 03, 2022
22 Nov 21, 2022
1 Dec 26, 2021
10 Aug 07, 2022
2 Jan 07, 2022
2 Jan 24, 2022
7 Jan 10, 2022
3 Oct 14, 2022
2 Mar 12, 2022
2 Dec 14, 2022
5 Oct 29, 2021
2.1k Jan 06, 2023
2 Jan 15, 2022
4 Oct 25, 2022