Yahoo Finance Scraper - Quotes, OHLCV History & Dividends

Extract market data for a list of tickers from Yahoo Finance: the current quote, the historical price series, dividends and recent news, all in one row per instrument.

What you get per ticker

Field	Example
ticker, name	AAPL, Apple Inc.
price, change, changePercent	current quote and move
currency, exchange	USD, NasdaqGS
quoteType	EQUITY, ETF, INDEX, CRYPTOCURRENCY
52w_high, 52w_low	annual range
dividend_yield	trailing yield
ohlcv	historical open, high, low, close and volume series
dividends	dividend payment history
news	recent headlines for the instrument
regularMarketTime	timestamp of the quote
source, sourceUrls	provenance

Input

• tickers - the symbols to fetch, e.g. ["AAPL", "MSFT", "BTC-USD", "^GSPC"]
• modules - which blocks to include, for example history, dividends or news
• historyRange - how far back, e.g. 1mo, 1y, 5y, max
• historyInterval - granularity, e.g. 1d, 1wk, 1mo
• maxResults - cap on how many tickers to process

Example input

{
  "tickers": ["AAPL", "MSFT", "NVDA"],
  "historyRange": "1y",
  "historyInterval": "1d"
}

Use cases

• Portfolio tracking - refresh quotes and history for a holdings list on a schedule
• Backtesting and quantitative research - pull clean OHLCV series for a basket of instruments
• Dividend income planning - export payment histories and trailing yields
• Market dashboards - feed a spreadsheet or BI tool without a paid market data subscription
• Comparative analysis - fetch the same range and interval across instruments so series line up
• News monitoring - collect headlines per instrument alongside the price move

Coverage beyond equities

Yahoo's symbol space covers far more than US stocks: ETFs, indices such as ^GSPC, currency pairs such as EURUSD=X, commodities and crypto such as BTC-USD all work in the same request. That makes a single run enough to build a mixed-asset dashboard.

Notes

• ohlcv and dividends grow quickly with long ranges. Use 1wk or 1mo intervals for multi-year pulls unless you specifically need daily bars.
• Quotes are delayed, as Yahoo's public data always is. This is a research and tracking source, not a trading feed.
• Yahoo adjusts historical prices for splits and dividends, so a series pulled today can differ slightly from one pulled last year.
• Data is provided for personal and research use; check Yahoo's terms before redistributing it commercially.