Get Yahoo Finance data through an API
Pull stock quotes, historical prices, company profiles, earnings data and more from publicly available Yahoo Finance pages straight via API into your app, spreadsheet, or AI agent. This is an unofficial tool built and run on Apify. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Yahoo.
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Python
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1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = {9 "tickers": [10 "MSFT",11 "AMZN",12 ],13 "proxy": { "useApifyProxy": True },14}15
16# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish17run = client.actor("canadesk/yahoo-finance").call(run_input=run_input)18
19# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)20print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])21for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():22 print(item)23
24# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startHow to get Yahoo Finance data via API
Provide ticker symbols and set your filters and parameters. The Actor API returns structured JSON with historical stock prices, company information, news articles, analyst recommendations, earnings dates, and more.
Input
{ "delay": 3, "proxy": { "useApifyProxy": true }, "period": "1y", "process": "gh", "tickers": [ "MSFT" ], "interval": "1d", "rounding": "max", "storecsv": "no"}Output
[ { "data": [ { "low": "312.55394893846466", "Date": "2023-10-05", "high": "317.59611925564633", "open": "316.7127353294032", "close": "316.980712890625", "volume": "16965600" } ], "type": "history", "ticker": "MSFT" }]Sign up for Apify account
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Go to settings in the Apify console and navigate to the “API & Integrations” tab. There, create a new token and save it for later.
Open the Actor's API panel
Open the Actor page and click the API dropdown in the top right corner. You’ll find API clients, endpoints, and more.
Start pulling data
Use the API to get the financial data you need from Yahoo Finance.
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Yahoo doesn't offer an official public API for Yahoo Finance data. This Actor is an unofficial alternative. It extracts publicly available data from Yahoo Finance pages and returns it in a structured format you can use in your projects and applications.
No. This tool is built by a developer in the Apify community and runs on the Apify platform. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Yahoo.
Yes. Create an Apify account and you get $5 of free monthly usage. No credit card required. Get your API token and start making requests.
Our Actors allows you to get data from Yahoo Finance such as stock quotes with open/high/low/close prices, historical data with customizable periods and intervals, company information and profiles, analyst recommendations and price targets, earnings dates and schedules, fund and ETF data, dividend information, financial news articles, and volume data with formatted dates for comprehensive financial analysis.
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