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
11 Dec 11, 2022
2 Dec 15, 2022
3 Jan 03, 2022
0 Jun 17, 2021
22 Nov 21, 2022
31 Apr 17, 2022
95 Jan 07, 2023
3 Jun 04, 2022
35 Aug 29, 2022
1 Oct 16, 2021
2 Jan 11, 2022
6 Dec 10, 2022
1.4k Dec 29, 2022
299 Dec 15, 2022
1 Nov 30, 2021
6 Nov 07, 2022
11 Jul 27, 2022
11 May 06, 2022
117 Dec 22, 2022