Yahoo Finance Stock Quote Scraper

Scrape real-time stock quotes and financial data from Yahoo Finance to power dashboards, AI agents, and alerting systems. Feed it a list of ticker symbols and get back live market prices, volume, market cap, and 52-week range — all from the public Yahoo Finance API in a single fast request. Schedule it on Apify to build a continuously updated market data pipeline.

Features

• Bulk ticker lookup — fetch quotes for hundreds of stock symbols in a single run
• Real-time prices — returns current market price, pre/post-market data, and daily change percentage
• Market fundamentals — includes market cap, trading volume, and 52-week high/low
• Multi-asset support — works with stocks, ETFs, indices, and forex pairs available on Yahoo Finance
• No API key required — queries the public Yahoo Finance API endpoint directly
• Batch optimization — processes up to 100 tickers per API call for maximum speed
• Pay-per-result pricing — only pay for quotes returned, with charge-limit safety built in

Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
tickers	array	Yes	—	List of stock ticker symbols to look up (e.g. AAPL, TSLA, SPY, BTC-USD)
timeoutSeconds	integer	No	15	API request timeout in seconds (1-120)

Input Example

{
  "tickers": ["AAPL", "TSLA", "MSFT", "SPY"],
  "timeoutSeconds": 15
}

Output

Each dataset item represents one stock quote. Key fields:

• symbol (string) — ticker symbol
• shortName (string) — company or instrument name
• regularMarketPrice (number) — current market price
• regularMarketChangePercent (number) — daily price change in percent
• regularMarketVolume (number) — trading volume
• marketCap (number) — market capitalization
• fiftyTwoWeekHigh (number) — 52-week high price
• fiftyTwoWeekLow (number) — 52-week low price
• currency (string) — price currency (e.g. USD)

Output Example

{
  "symbol": "AAPL",
  "shortName": "Apple Inc.",
  "regularMarketPrice": 237.45,
  "regularMarketChangePercent": 1.23,
  "regularMarketVolume": 54123000,
  "marketCap": 3620000000000,
  "fiftyTwoWeekHigh": 243.20,
  "fiftyTwoWeekLow": 164.08,
  "currency": "USD"
}

Pricing

Event	Cost
Quote Fetched	Pay-per-event (see actor pricing page)

Use Cases

• Portfolio dashboards — build real-time stock monitoring dashboards with scheduled Apify runs
• Trading alerts — trigger notifications when prices cross thresholds by combining with webhooks
• Financial research — collect market data snapshots for backtesting or analysis
• AI agent tools — supply live market context to LLM agents and financial chatbots
• Spreadsheet automation — export daily quotes to Google Sheets or Excel via Apify integrations
• Multi-asset tracking — monitor stocks, ETFs, crypto pairs, and indices from a single actor

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Notes

• Yahoo Finance may occasionally block requests or change their API structure. If you encounter errors, try reducing the batch size or spacing runs further apart.
• Pre-market and post-market prices are included when available but may show null outside trading hours.