A web scraper for ticker symbols from yahoo finance
Project description
Produces .csv, .json, .yaml, and .xls files (All files contain same data in a different format) for stocks, ETF, futures, indexes, mutual funds, currency, warrants and bonds. The ticker symbol, company name and exchange are saved. The category the symbol belongs to is only stored for stock symbols.
It gets its data from https://finance.yahoo.com/lookup/. Please note: it is not possible to get all the symbols due to limitations set by Yahoo. About 75%-90% of all symbols are gathered using this script depending on type.
Installation
From python package manager (preferred):
pip install Yahoo-ticker-downloader
From source:
python setup.py install
Running
The first param is one of the following types: stocks etf future index mutualfund currency warrant bond
YahooTickerDownloader.py stocks
The program takes several hours before any output is generated. The program supports suspending and resuming a download. Press CTRL+C to suspend download. Restart the program in the same working directory to resume downloading.
Example of output:
Ticker,Name,Exchange,categoryName,categoryNr
ENZ,"Enzo Biochem Inc.",NYQ,"Medical Laboratories & Research",525
ENZN,"Enzon Pharmaceuticals Inc.",NMS,Biotechnology,515
ENZR,"Energizer Resources Inc.",PNK,,0
EOAA.DE,"E.ON AG",GER,"Diversified Utilities",913
KMX,"CarMax Inc.",NYQ,"Auto Dealerships",744
KMY.MU,KIMBERLY-CLARK,MUN,"Personal Products",323
KN1.DU,ECOUNION,DUS,"Business Software & Services",826
KNCAY,"Konica Minolta Holdings Inc.",PNK,,0
KND,"Kindred Healthcare Inc.",NYQ,"Long-Term Care Facilities",523
KNDI,"Kandi Technologies, Corp",NGM,"Auto Manufacturers - Major",330
...ect
Depending on the type you are downloading, you will between 3.000 and 26.000 entries.
Further resources
Download history for symbols: ystockquote
Changelog
Version 0.4.0
Warrant symbols can now be downloaded.
Bond symbols can now be downloaded.
Version 0.3.0
Use https instead of http
Retry to fetch a page if it contains no symbols (A “fix” for issue #4)
Renamed all ‘Curreny’ to ‘Currency’
Relative imports are used
Fix: .csv file it outputs is encoded in UTF-8 when using python2
Performance: Considerable reduced memory consumption
It now outputs .json, .yaml and .xls files in addition to .csv
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