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
30 Aug 08, 2022
14 Dec 09, 2022
2 Dec 15, 2022
12 Oct 27, 2022
16 Oct 08, 2022
11 Nov 13, 2022
25 Oct 31, 2022
0 Jun 17, 2021
1 Nov 10, 2021
4 Oct 25, 2022
3.2k Dec 29, 2022
45 Dec 30, 2022
1 Dec 20, 2021
56 Nov 27, 2022
30 Mar 01, 2022
11 Dec 11, 2022
2k Dec 28, 2022
7 Dec 03, 2022
4 Dec 03, 2022
13 Dec 21, 2022