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Yfinance

Download market data from Yahoo! Finance's API

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README

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Download market data from Yahoo! Finance's API

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yfinance offers a Pythonic way to fetch financial & market data from Yahoo!Ⓡ finance.


[!IMPORTANT]
Yahoo!, Y!Finance, and Yahoo! finance are registered trademarks of Yahoo, Inc.

yfinance is not affiliated, endorsed, or vetted by Yahoo, Inc. It's an open-source tool that uses Yahoo's publicly available APIs, and is intended for research and educational purposes.

You should refer to Yahoo!'s terms of use (here, here, and here) **for details on your rights to use the actual data downloaded.

Remember - the Yahoo! finance API is intended for personal use only.**


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Main components

  • Ticker: single ticker data
  • Tickers: multiple tickers' data
  • download: download market data for multiple tickers
  • Market: get information about a market
  • WebSocket and AsyncWebSocket: live streaming data
  • Search: quotes and news from search
  • Sector and Industry: sector and industry information
  • EquityQuery and Screener: build query to screen market

Installation

Install yfinance from PYPI using pip:

$ pip install yfinance

yfinance relies on the community to investigate bugs and contribute code. Here's how you can help.


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Legal Stuff

yfinance is distributed under the Apache Software License. See the LICENSE.txt file in the release for details.

AGAIN - yfinance is not affiliated, endorsed, or vetted by Yahoo, Inc. It's an open-source tool that uses Yahoo's publicly available APIs, and is intended for research and educational purposes. You should refer to Yahoo!'s terms of use (here, here, and here) for details on your rights to use the actual data downloaded.


P.S.

Please drop me a note with any feedback you have.

Ran Aroussi

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GitHub Stars22.3k
CategoryFinance
Updated34m ago
Forks3.1k

Languages

Python

Security Score

100/100

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