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
12 Oct 22, 2022
859 Dec 29, 2022
53 Dec 16, 2022
3 Feb 13, 2022
151 Dec 23, 2022
199 Dec 12, 2022
105 Dec 29, 2022
1 Dec 07, 2021
6 Nov 07, 2022
1 Oct 27, 2021
4 Jun 02, 2022
3 Jan 02, 2022
1 Dec 02, 2022
2 Oct 31, 2022
1 Dec 05, 2021
3 Dec 03, 2022
50 Jan 05, 2023
10 Jul 03, 2022
91 Dec 08, 2022
13 Dec 27, 2022