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Python module to get stock data from Yahoo! Finance

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Python module to get stock data from Yahoo! Finance

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Yahoo! Finance backend is http://datatables.org/. If this service is down or has network problems you will receive errors from group YQL*, eg. YQLQueryError.

You can monitor this service via https://www.datatables.org/healthchecker/

More details https://github.com/lukaszbanasiak/yahoo-finance/issues/44

Install

From PyPI with pip:

$ pip install yahoo-finance

From development repo (requires git)

$ git clone git://github.com/lukaszbanasiak/yahoo-finance.git
$ cd yahoo-finance
$ python setup.py install

Usage examples

Get shares data

Example: Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO)

>>> from yahoo_finance import Share
>>> yahoo = Share('YHOO')
>>> print yahoo.get_open()
'36.60'
>>> print yahoo.get_price()
'36.84'
>>> print yahoo.get_trade_datetime()
'2014-02-05 20:50:00 UTC+0000'

Refresh data from market

>>> yahoo.refresh()
>>> print yahoo.get_price()
'36.87'
>>> print yahoo.get_trade_datetime()
'2014-02-05 21:00:00 UTC+0000'

Historical data

>>> print yahoo.get_historical('2014-04-25', '2014-04-29')
[{u'Volume': u'28720000', u'Symbol': u'YHOO', u'Adj_Close': u'35.83', u'High': u'35.89', u'Low': u'34.12', u'Date': u'2014-04-29', u'Close': u'35.83', u'Open': u'34.37'}, {u'Volume': u'30422000', u'Symbol': u'YHOO', u'Adj_Close': u'33.99', u'High': u'35.00', u'Low': u'33.65', u'Date': u'2014-04-28', u'Close': u'33.99', u'Open': u'34.67'}, {u'Volume': u'19391100', u'Symbol': u'YHOO', u'Adj_Close': u'34.48', u'High': u'35.10', u'Low': u'34.29', u'Date': u'2014-04-25', u'Close': u'34.48', u'Open': u'35.03'}]

More readable output :)

>>> from pprint import pprint
>>> pprint(yahoo.get_historical('2014-04-25', '2014-04-29'))
[{u'Adj_Close': u'35.83',
  u'Close': u'35.83',
  u'Date': u'2014-04-29',
  u'High': u'35.89',
  u'Low': u'34.12',
  u'Open': u'34.37',
  u'Symbol': u'YHOO',
  u'Volume': u'28720000'},
 {u'Adj_Close': u'33.99',
  u'Close': u'33.99',
  u'Date': u'2014-04-28',
  u'High': u'35.00',
  u'Low': u'33.65',
  u'Open': u'34.67',
  u'Symbol': u'YHOO',
  u'Volume': u'30422000'},
 {u'Adj_Close': u'34.48',
  u'Close': u'34.48',
  u'Date': u'2014-04-25',
  u'High': u'35.10',
  u'Low': u'34.29',
  u'Open': u'35.03',
  u'Symbol': u'YHOO',
  u'Volume': u'19391100'}]

Available methods

  • get_price()

  • get_change()

  • get_percent_change()

  • get_volume()

  • get_prev_close()

  • get_open()

  • get_avg_daily_volume()

  • get_stock_exchange()

  • get_market_cap()

  • get_book_value()

  • get_ebitda()

  • get_dividend_share()

  • get_dividend_yield()

  • get_earnings_share()

  • get_days_high()

  • get_days_low()

  • get_year_high()

  • get_year_low()

  • get_50day_moving_avg()

  • get_200day_moving_avg()

  • get_price_earnings_ratio()

  • get_price_earnings_growth_ratio()

  • get_price_sales()

  • get_price_book()

  • get_short_ratio()

  • get_trade_datetime()

  • get_historical(start_date, end_date)

  • get_info()

  • get_name()

  • refresh()

  • get_percent_change_from_year_high()

  • get_percent_change_from_year_low()

  • get_change_from_year_low()

  • get_change_from_year_high()

  • get_percent_change_from_200_day_moving_average()

  • get_change_from_200_day_moving_average()

  • get_percent_change_from_50_day_moving_average()

  • get_change_from_50_day_moving_average()

  • get_EPS_estimate_next_quarter()

  • get_EPS_estimate_next_year()

  • get_ex_dividend_date()

  • get_EPS_estimate_current_year()

  • get_price_EPS_estimate_next_year()

  • get_price_EPS_estimate_current_year()

  • get_one_yr_target_price()

  • get_change_percent_change()

  • get_dividend_pay_date()

  • get_currency()

  • get_last_trade_with_time()

  • get_days_range()

  • get_year_range()

Get currency data

Example: EUR/PLN (EURPLN=X)

>>> from yahoo_finance import Currency
>>> eur_pln = Currency('EURPLN')
>>> print eur_pln.get_bid()
'4.2007'
>>> print eur_pln.get_ask()
'4.2091'
>>> print eur_pln.get_rate()
'4.2049'
>>> print eur_pln.get_trade_datetime()
'2014-03-05 11:23:00 UTC+0000'

Refresh data from market

>>> eur_pln.refresh()
>>> print eur_pln.get_rate()
'4.2052'
>>> print eur_pln.get_trade_datetime()
'2014-03-05 11:27:00 UTC+0000'

Avalible methods

  • get_bid()

  • get_ask()

  • get_rate()

  • get_trade_datetime()

  • refresh()

Requirements

See requirements.txt

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