yahoo-finance-data 0.0.5

Retreive data (quote, historical, financial, statistics) from Yahoo Finance.

yahoo-finance-data (Alpha-version)

The omnipotent Yahoo-Finance data retreiver

yahoo-finance-data is a package for the retreival of data from Yahoo Finance. It makes use of both scraping and query calls. The yahoo-finance-data package is intended to be simple to use. Its usage is summarized in two steps.

• Create specialized data retreival objects
• Retreive data in a standardized dictionary format

Features

The asset classes currently supported are: Stocks. In the future support will be added for Options, Bonds and Crypto.

Data Types

The following data may be retreived.

• Quote
• Historical (price, dividends, splits)
• Financials
• Cash-Flow statement
• Balance-Sheet statement
• Key-Statistics

Installation

Through pip.

pip install yahoo-finance-data 

Usage

Write some examples in separate boxes

Dependencies

yahoo-finance-data uses a number of 3rd party projects:

• [certifi] - Validating the trustworthiness of SSL certificates.
• [urllib3] - A powerful, user-friendly HTTP client for Python.
• [bs4] - Library that makes it easy to scrape information from web pages.
• [datetime] - Standardize time management.
• [selenium] - Should be removed!

yahoo-finance-data is itself an open source project with a public repository on GitHub.

License

MIT

*Free Software