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
105 Dec 29, 2022
46 Nov 22, 2022
88 Jan 04, 2023
1 Dec 03, 2022
1 Dec 13, 2021
117 Dec 22, 2022
19 Nov 17, 2022
793 Jan 05, 2023
1 Oct 26, 2021
2 Aug 03, 2022
1 Nov 26, 2021
3 Feb 10, 2022
6 Aug 26, 2022
15 Dec 05, 2021
1 Jan 12, 2022
1 Nov 13, 2021
3 Feb 17, 2022
45 Dec 14, 2022
30 Mar 01, 2022
2 Dec 22, 2021