How to Scrape Data from Yahoo Finance?

[thealphabreed]

So I know people who get price and volume data from Yahoo Finance.

THis helps them understand how low or high a stock can go.

Does anyone know how to do that using Python or even a simpler way?

I did find an article but i'd very much appreciate if someone can help: https://codeburst.io/how-to-scrape-yahoo-finance-using-python-31164aa06468

 

[CarsonEmery]

If you look up matt owens on youtube he has a series where does some basic python coding and pulling data from yahoo finance

 

[smrcute]

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[halcyonguy]

why not export data from tos to xls?
https://usethinkscript.com/threads/...ters-in-my-market-watch-list.7988/#post-76614

 

[mashume]

Just to add to what's been written here previously (as there is nothing wrong with it) but if python is your choice, you can do some nifty tricks with the yfinance package and pandas:

import yfinance as yf
import pandas as pd

data = yf.Ticker('YM=F')
df = data.history(interval='5m', period='60d', prepost=True)

data.history returns a pandas dataframe.

YFinance doesn't always work, sometimes updating it will cause it to work again. Don't build systems that are auto trading based on their data, as it is good data but unreliable in delivery. The documentation for yfinance is good:
https://pypi.org/project/yfinance/

Happy Trading,
-mashume