download-yfinance-data 0.0.1

Downloads and saves Yahoo finance stock data.

download_yfinance_data

Downloads Yahoo Finance data with yfinance in Python.

Usage

It's best to customize the list of stocks you want to download. Change the list at the bottom of download_stocks.py. Then run the file: python download_stocks.py. You can also download the entire stocklist from NASDAQ, which should take around 15 minutes to download the data, then another few minutes to store in a sqlite db. To download all stocks, you can do:

ipython

import download_stocks as ds
ds.download_stocklist()

List of stocks

Retrieved from here: ftp://ftp.nasdaqtrader.com/symboldirectory

Notes

Currently, yfinance is correcting the OHL for dividends by using the same ratio as for the close. I think this is incorrect, and it should be using the dividends to subtract that amount from the days prior to the dividend.

To do

• Add other storage mechanisms (arctic db which uses MongoDB, postgresql, etc)
• Error checking/testing