finance-scrapers 0.1.5

A tool to scrape and download publicly available stock information. Currently supports Yahoo Finance data.

Finance Scrapers

A pypi package to scrape stock information from different finance sites. Currently supports Yahoo Finance.

Installation

To install, Download the PyPi package or,

pip install finance-scrapers

To upgrade to the latest version,

pip install --upgrade finance-scrapers

Usage

Scrape stock information and display to terminal:

from finance_scrapers import YahooFinance

# the tickers of the stocks you want to scrape
tickers = ['schb', 'googl', 'nflx']

# run the scraper
scraper = YahooFinance(tickers)
all_stock_info = scraper.scrape()

Scrape stock information and download to a file:

from finance_scrapers import YahooFinance

# the tickers of the stocks you want to scrape
tickers = ['schb', 'googl', 'nflx']

scraper = YahooFinance(tickers)

# download data
scraper.download_data("json", "sample.json", overwrite=False) # or,
scraper.download_data("markdown", "sample.md") # or,
scraper.download_data("csv", "sample.csv") # or,
scraper.download_data("excel", "sample.xlsx")

FAQs

Why are some of my stock info dictionaries returning empty?

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This indicates that the stock provided does not actually exist. It could be the case that you made a typo, wrote the wrong ticker, etc. In the future, a feature will be added to allow you to re-enter a stock if it could not be found.