Yahoo! Finance market data download with python
Yahoo! Finance market data downloader
Ever since Yahoo! finance decommissioned their historical data API, many programs that relied on it to stop working.
yfinance aimes to solve this problem by offering a reliable, threaded, and Pythonic way to download historical market data from Yahoo! finance.
Quick Start
The Ticker module
The Ticker module, which allows you to access ticker data in a more Pythonic way:
Note: yahoo finance datetimes are received as UTC.
import yfinance as yf
msft = yf.Ticker("MSFT")
# get stock info
msft.info
# get historical market data
hist = msft.history(period="max")
# show actions (dividends, splits)
msft.actions
# show dividends
msft.dividends
# show splits
msft.splits
# show financials
msft.financials
msft.quarterly_financials
# show major holders
msft.major_holders
# show institutional holders
msft.institutional_holders
# show balance sheet
msft.balance_sheet