Yahoo Finance Scraper: Quotes, History, Financials

Yahoo Finance Scraper: Quotes, History, Financials

Yahoo Finance Scraper turns a list of ticker symbols into Yahoo Finance data rows: the quote with the exchange delay, daily or intraday price history, annual and quarterly financial statements, the company or fund profile, analyst data, news headlines and option chains, plus Yahoo's predefined screeners. No Yahoo login, no API key and no proxy setting. You pick the data types; each one is a separate row per ticker and is charged only when Yahoo has data of that kind. A ticker Yahoo does not know, or a data type it has nothing for, comes back as a free status row that says why.

It works for stocks on US and other exchanges, ETFs, mutual funds, indices (^GSPC), currencies (EURUSD=X), crypto (BTC-USD) and futures (ES=F). Use it as a Yahoo Finance API for your own code (curl, Node and Python examples below), as a scheduled feed for a dashboard, or as a CSV export: history and news can come as one flat row per candle or per headline.

Why this one

• Pay only for data that came back. Unknown tickers, data types Yahoo has nothing for, blocked requests and invalid input values are free status rows. A symbol is charged one Quote per run, even when it is in your list and in a screener, or in two screeners.
• The delay on every quote. Each Quote row carries Yahoo's own exchangeDataDelayedBy (minutes), quoteSourceName and marketState, so you can see which prices are delayed.
• Quarterly statements you can choose. Income statement, balance sheet and cash flow, each with annual, quarterly and trailing twelve month periods, under Yahoo's own line names.
• News from two Yahoo routes. Yahoo's search route and its RSS headline feed are merged by article id, so non US tickers, which the search route leaves empty, still get headlines from the feed.
• Nested or flat. Price history and news come as one record per ticker (cheapest) or as one row per candle or headline (for spreadsheets).
• Fast. A one ticker quote run took about 2 seconds on the platform.

Quick start

1. Put ticker symbols into Tickers, one per line, exactly as Yahoo Finance shows them: AAPL, BRK-B, ^GSPC, EURUSD=X, BTC-USD, ES=F, 0700.HK, RELIANCE.NS. Lower case, a leading $ ($aapl) and a pasted https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL/ link work too, and one line may hold several symbols separated by commas.
2. Pick the Data types you want. The default is Quote only.
3. Optional: set the price history range and interval, the statements and periods, the number of headlines or option expiries, or pick screeners.
4. Click Start. Rows appear in the Dataset tab; export JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them through the API.

What you get

Every row has a type: quote, history, candle, financials, profile, analyst, news, article, options, status or summary. Data rows repeat the identity fields symbol and name (most also quoteType, exchange and currency), so a CSV row stands on its own, and end with scrapedAt.

Data type	Row type	What one row holds	Event
quote	quote	One ticker's quote, flat, Yahoo's own field names	Quote
history	history (nested) or candle (flat)	Candles with dividends and splits, or one candle per row	Ticker record, or Candle per row
financials	financials	Every selected statement and period of one ticker	Ticker record
profile	profile	Company or fund profile, key statistics, holders, filings	Ticker record
analyst	analyst	Targets, recommendations, estimates, earnings history, rating changes, Yahoo insights	Ticker record
news	news (nested) or article (flat)	Latest headlines, or one headline per row	Ticker record, or News article per row
options	options	The chain of one expiry, calls and puts	Ticker record per expiry
screeners	quote	One screener row, plus screener, screenerTitle, screenerRank	Quote

Quote row

One row per ticker. It leads with symbol, name, shortName, quoteType, exchange, exchangeCode, currency, marketState, quoteSourceName, exchangeDataDelayedBy, regularMarketPrice, regularMarketChange, regularMarketChangePercent, regularMarketTime and position (where the ticker sits in your list, zero based), then every other field Yahoo's quote carries for that instrument under Yahoo's own name: day and 52 week ranges, volume and average volume, bid and ask, the post market price, market cap, shares outstanding, trailing and forward P/E, EPS, book value, price to book, dividend rate and yield, the 50 and 200 day averages, earnings dates, the analyst rating, and fund, crypto or futures fields where they apply. Unix times become ISO dates, and firstTradeDate closes the row. A stock row carried 70 to 91 fields in our test runs, an index or currency 55.

Fill rates measured on 300 mixed symbols sent to Yahoo's quote endpoint on 2026-10-01 (294 came back, 117 distinct fields in all; US markets were closed at the time, which is why pre and post market fields look the way they do). They are what Yahoo publishes for each asset class, not a choice of the Actor:

Field	US stocks (151)	Other markets (50)	ETFs (25)	Mutual funds (10)	Indices (15)	Currencies (14)	Crypto (15)	Futures (10)
regularMarketPrice	100%	98%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%
regularMarketVolume	100%	98%	100%	0%	86.7%	100%	100%	100%
marketCap	99.3%	92%	0%	0%	0%	0%	100%	0%
trailingPE	77.5%	88%	72%	70%	0%	0%	0%	0%
forwardPE	100%	92%	4%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%
epsTrailingTwelveMonths	100%	92%	80%	70%	0%	0%	0%	0%
dividendYield	49%	96%	100%	100%	0%	0%	0%	0%
averageAnalystRating	94.7%	98%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%
sharesOutstanding	99.3%	92%	40%	40%	0%	0%	0%	0%
earningsTimestamp	98.7%	86%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%
bid, ask	100%	96%	100%	0%	86.7%	100%	0%	100%
postMarketPrice	97.4%	0%	100%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%
exchangeDataDelayedBy	100%	98%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%
quoteSourceName	99.3%	98%	100%	100%	93.3%	100%	100%	100%
marketState	100%	98%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%
currency	100%	98%	100%	100%	93.3%	100%	100%	100%
netAssets, netExpenseRatio, ytdReturn	0%	0%	100%	100%	0%	0%	0%	0%
circulatingSupply	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	100%	0%
openInterest, expireDate	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	100%

exchangeDataDelayedBy in the same sample: 0 minutes for the US exchanges, currencies and crypto; 15 for London, XETRA, Paris, Hong Kong, NSE, BSE, Sao Paulo and Milan and most Toronto rows; 20 for Tokyo, Osaka, ASX, Korea and Taiwan; 10 for the CME group futures.

Example Quote row (platform run of the prefill input on 2026-10-01; shortened: 26 of its 84 fields):

{
  "type": "quote",
  "symbol": "AAPL",
  "name": "Apple Inc.",
  "quoteType": "EQUITY",
  "exchange": "NasdaqGS",
  "exchangeCode": "NMS",
  "currency": "USD",
  "marketState": "PREPRE",
  "quoteSourceName": "Nasdaq Real Time Price",
  "exchangeDataDelayedBy": 0,
  "regularMarketPrice": 333.02,
  "regularMarketChange": 3.62,
  "regularMarketChangePercent": 1.09897,
  "regularMarketTime": "2026-09-30T20:00:01.000Z",
  "position": 0,
  "regularMarketVolume": 49875295,
  "fiftyTwoWeekLow": 243.42,
  "fiftyTwoWeekHigh": 345.34,
  "postMarketPrice": 334.25,
  "trailingPE": 37.714607,
  "forwardPE": 34.7426,
  "dividendYield": 0.33,
  "marketCap": 4860153954304,
  "averageAnalystRating": "2.2 - Buy",
  "firstTradeDate": "1980-12-12T14:30:00.000Z",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-01T04:39:50.134Z"
}

Price history: history record or candle rows

Nested (historyOutput nested, the default): one history record per ticker with interval, range, start, end, exchangeTimezone, firstTradeDate, regularMarketPrice, regularMarketTime, fiftyTwoWeekHigh, fiftyTwoWeekLow, chartPreviousClose, candleCount, firstCandleAt, lastCandleAt, emptySlotsSkipped, outsideWindowSkipped, liveRow, and the lists candles (timestamp, date, open, high, low, close, adjClose, volume), dividends (timestamp, date, amount), splits (timestamp, date, numerator, denominator, ratio) and capitalGains. One Ticker record per ticker, however many candles.

Flat (historyOutput rows): one candle row per candle with symbol, name, exchange, currency, interval, timestamp, date, open, high, low, close, adjClose, volume, liveRow, scrapedAt. Dividends and splits are in the nested record only.

A slot without a close (a holiday in a currency pair, a session that has only just opened) is skipped and counted in emptySlotsSkipped, never delivered as a candle. adjClose exists for daily and longer intervals only. date is the trading day in the exchange's own time zone. With historyStart or historyEnd, only candles of those days are delivered: a row Yahoo returns for a day outside them (a currency pair's bar for the next day starts at 23:00 UTC) is dropped and counted in outsideWindowSkipped, never charged.

liveRow: after the candles of the interval you asked for, Yahoo adds one more row for the latest trade or session (a monthly series ends with September's candle and then a row for September 30; a 5 minute series ends with a row at the second of the last trade). That row is not a candle of your interval, so it is never counted or charged as one. You still get it: as liveRow (timestamp, date, open, high, low, close, volume) on the history record, and on the last candle row when candles come as rows (null on every other row). On the daily interval the row is today's candle and is delivered as one, once per trading day.

Example candle row (platform run, AAPL, 1 month of daily candles):

{
  "type": "candle",
  "symbol": "AAPL",
  "name": "Apple Inc.",
  "exchange": "NasdaqGS",
  "currency": "USD",
  "interval": "1d",
  "timestamp": "2026-09-01T13:30:00.000Z",
  "date": "2026-09-01",
  "open": 316.9800109863281,
  "high": 327.29998779296875,
  "low": 314.7300109863281,
  "close": 325.1300048828125,
  "adjClose": 325.1300048828125,
  "volume": 53167400,
  "liveRow": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-01T16:16:37.610Z"
}

Financial statements: financials record

One record per ticker with currency, statements (which of income, balance, cashflow came back), annualPeriods, quarterlyPeriods, trailingPeriods, lineItems, latestAnnual, latestQuarter, and the lists annual, quarterly and trailing. Each period carries asOfDate, periodType (12M, 3M or TTM), currency, and the objects incomeStatement, balanceSheet and cashFlow, whose keys are Yahoo's own line names (TotalRevenue, GrossProfit, OperatingIncome, EBITDA, NetIncome, DilutedEPS, TotalAssets, TotalDebt, StockholdersEquity, OperatingCashFlow, FreeCashFlow, CapitalExpenditure and the rest of the 375 line names the Actor asks for). Lines Yahoo leaves empty are left out.

Example (platform run, AAPL; shortened to one quarterly period and five lines per statement):

{
  "type": "financials",
  "symbol": "AAPL",
  "name": "Apple Inc.",
  "currency": "USD",
  "statements": ["income", "balance", "cashflow"],
  "annualPeriods": 4,
  "quarterlyPeriods": 6,
  "trailingPeriods": 0,
  "lineItems": 163,
  "latestAnnual": "2025-09-30",
  "latestQuarter": "2026-06-30",
  "quarterly": [
    {
      "asOfDate": "2026-06-30",
      "periodType": "3M",
      "currency": "USD",
      "incomeStatement": { "TotalRevenue": 109417000000, "GrossProfit": 54770000000, "OperatingIncome": 35695000000, "NetIncome": 29789000000, "DilutedEPS": 2.02 },
      "balanceSheet": { "TotalAssets": 383266000000, "TotalDebt": 84344000000, "StockholdersEquity": 107520000000, "CashAndCashEquivalents": 39544000000 },
      "cashFlow": { "OperatingCashFlow": 34369000000, "FreeCashFlow": 31914000000, "CapitalExpenditure": -2455000000 }
    }
  ]
}

Profile: profile record

sector, industry, website, country, city, state, address, zip, phone, fullTimeEmployees, longBusinessSummary, irWebsite, sectorKey, industryKey, companyOfficers (name, title, age, pay where Yahoo has it), governance (Yahoo's audit, board, compensation and shareholder rights risk scores), keyStatistics, summaryDetail, financialData, holders (breakdown, institutions, funds, insiders, insiderTransactions, netSharePurchaseActivity), fund (profile, topHoldings, performance for ETFs and mutual funds), indexComponents (an index that lists its members), futuresChain (a futures root), secFilings (the latest 25) and secFilingsTotal. A stock gets the company fields, an ETF or fund the fund fields, a future its chain; an index or a currency usually has no profile and gets a free no_data status instead.

Analyst: analyst record

currentPrice, targetHighPrice, targetLowPrice, targetMeanPrice, targetMedianPrice, recommendationMean, recommendationKey, numberOfAnalystOpinions, recommendationTrend (strong buy to strong sell counts by month), earningsEstimates (EPS and revenue estimates, EPS trend and revisions per period), earningsHistory (actual against estimate, surprise), ratingChanges (the latest 100 upgrades and downgrades with firm, grades and price targets) and ratingChangesTotal, calendarEvents (next earnings date, ex-dividend and dividend dates), earnings, indexTrend, and insights (Yahoo's technical outlook, key technical levels, valuation note, third party recommendation, company snapshot scores and up to 10 research report summaries with reportsTotal), with insightsRead saying whether the insights call answered (when it did not, the record is delivered without them and the ticker's status row says so). Example values for MSFT on 2026-10-01: targetMeanPrice 578.41516, recommendationKey strong_buy, numberOfAnalystOpinions 52, ratingChangesTotal 936.

News: news record or article rows

Nested (newsOutput nested, the default): one news record per ticker with articleCount, latestArticleAt, routes (how many articles each of the two Yahoo routes returned; null for a route that could not be read), allRoutesRead and articles. When one route could not be read, the articles of the other are delivered and the ticker's status row says that its news is incomplete. Flat (newsOutput rows): one article row per headline. Each headline has id, title, publisher, link, publishedAt, contentType, summary, thumbnailUrl, relatedTickers, source (search, rss or search+rss), taggedWithTicker (Yahoo tagged the article with your symbol) and inTickerFeed (it came in your symbol's own feed), newest first; flat rows also carry allRoutesRead. On the search route every field was filled for 921 of 921 US items except the thumbnail (790); feed items carry a summary and no publisher. name on news rows is filled when the quote was asked in the same run.

Example article row (platform run, NVDA, flat news):

{
  "type": "article",
  "symbol": "NVDA",
  "name": null,
  "id": "0b7ec0e8-8667-3730-9383-852adf4ca9b9",
  "title": "CoreWeave (CRWV) Unveils Forge For AI Development",
  "publisher": "Simply Wall St.",
  "link": "https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/coreweave-crwv-unveils-forge-ai-020922457.html",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-01T02:09:22.000Z",
  "contentType": "STORY",
  "summary": "CoreWeave (NasdaqGS:CRWV) unveiled Forge, a unified AI development environment, at its Fully Connected AI cloud conference. ...",
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://media.zenfs.com/en/simply_wall_st__316/44525c174d97ebe37fab75bc64158db1.jpg",
  "relatedTickers": ["CRWV", "NVDA"],
  "source": "search+rss",
  "taggedWithTicker": true,
  "inTickerFeed": true,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-01T04:46:37.904Z"
}

Options: options record per expiry

One record per expiry date, nearest first, with expirationDate, underlyingPrice, underlyingPriceTime, callCount, putCount, strikeCount, expirationDates (every expiry Yahoo lists), hasMiniOptions, and the lists calls and puts. Each contract keeps Yahoo's 15 fields: contractSymbol, strike, currency, lastPrice, change, percentChange, volume, openInterest, bid, ask, contractSize, expiration, lastTradeDate, impliedVolatility, inTheMoney. On 3,546 contracts every field was filled except volume (96.2%).

Screeners: quote rows

A screener row is a Quote row with three more fields: screener (the id), screenerTitle and screenerRank (1 is the top of the list). A symbol that already came back as a quote earlier in the same run is delivered again, free, with repeatedInRun: true, so every list is complete and no quote is charged twice.

Status rows (free)

Every ticker that did not get every data type it asked for gets at most ONE type: "status" row with scope: "ticker", status, symbol, position, message, blocks (each missing data type and its outcome), details (Yahoo's reason per data type), deliveredBlocks (the data types that did come) and, for an unknown symbol, suggestions (up to 5 of Yahoo's own candidates: symbol, name, exchange, quoteType). An input value that cannot be used gets a row with scope: "input", status: "invalid", field, value and message; a screener that returned nothing gets a row with scope: "screener". None of them is charged.

status	What it means
not_found	Yahoo does not know the symbol: its quote endpoint left it out twice, or another endpoint answered "not found". The other data types are not asked.
no_data	Yahoo knows the symbol but has nothing of this kind: no statements for an index, fund, currency or crypto asset; no options for a fund; no profile for an index; no price for a delisted shell listing.
blocked	Yahoo could not be reached for this part after several attempts. Run it again.
unsupported	Yahoo does not serve the request as asked, for example an interval it answers at another granularity for that window.
skipped	Not processed: the run stopped first (your maximum charge per run, the run timeout, or an abort).
failed	An unexpected error; details says what.
invalid	An input value that cannot be used: not a ticker symbol, a date that is not a date, an intraday window outside Yahoo's limits (the history data type is then not run), or no tickers and no screener at all.

Two real status rows from platform runs (shortened: details and scrapedAt left out, the second also cut to two data types):

{"type": "status", "scope": "ticker", "status": "no_data", "symbol": "^GSPC", "position": 1, "message": "Yahoo Finance has no data of this kind for the symbol. Nothing was charged for the missing part.", "blocks": {"financials": "no_data", "profile": "no_data"}, "deliveredBlocks": ["quote", "history"]}
{"type": "status", "scope": "ticker", "status": "not_found", "symbol": "ZZZZNOTREAL1", "position": 0, "message": "Yahoo Finance does not know this symbol. Nothing was charged for it.", "blocks": {"quote": "not_found", "history": "not_found"}, "deliveredBlocks": []}

The last row of every run is a free type: "summary" row with tickersGiven, tickers, duplicateTickersIgnored, inputProblems, rows (counts per row type), tickerOutcomes, stoppedBy, requests, suggestionLookups and billing (events charged per event name). A run writes at most 1,000 status rows; any beyond that are counted in statusRowsOmitted.

How much does it cost to scrape Yahoo Finance?

You pay per data row delivered plus a small start fee per run. Status rows, repeated screener rows and the run summary are free.

Event	FREE	BRONZE	SILVER	GOLD
Quote (one Quote row or one screener row)	$0.40 / 1,000	$0.40 / 1,000	$0.36 / 1,000	$0.32 / 1,000
Ticker record (one history, financials, profile, analyst or news record, or one option expiry)	$0.065 / 1,000	$0.065 / 1,000	$0.058 / 1,000	$0.052 / 1,000
Candle (one flat price history row)	$0.02 / 1,000	$0.02 / 1,000	$0.018 / 1,000	$0.016 / 1,000
News article (one flat headline row)	$0.02 / 1,000	$0.02 / 1,000	$0.018 / 1,000	$0.016 / 1,000
Actor start (once per run, per GB of memory)	$0.0004	$0.0004	$0.0004	$0.0004

Platinum and Diamond plans pay the Gold price. The Actor start event is a flat fee with no tier discount, charged once per run whatever the run delivers; the default 256 MB run counts as one start event.

Worked examples (start fee included):

Run	FREE and BRONZE	SILVER	GOLD
1 ticker, quote only: $0.0004 + 1 x $0.0004	$0.0008	$0.00076	$0.00072
3 tickers, quote only (the prefill): $0.0004 + 3 x $0.0004	$0.0016	$0.00148	$0.00136
1 ticker, every data type, one option expiry: $0.0004 + 1 Quote + 6 Ticker records ($0.0004 + 6 x $0.000065 = $0.00079)	$0.00119	$0.001108	$0.001032
5 tickers, every data type, one option expiry each: $0.0004 + 5 x $0.00079	$0.00435	$0.00394	$0.00356
100 tickers, quote only: $0.0004 + 100 x $0.0004	$0.0404	$0.0364	$0.0324
1 ticker, one year of daily candles as flat rows (Yahoo returned 251): $0.0004 + 251 x $0.00002	$0.00542	$0.004918	$0.004416
The same year as one nested history record: $0.0004 + 1 x $0.000065	$0.000465	$0.000458	$0.000452
One screener, 25 rows: $0.0004 + 25 x $0.0004	$0.0104	$0.0094	$0.0084

Without the start fee, a ticker with every data type and one option expiry costs $0.00079 at FREE and BRONZE, $0.000708 at SILVER and $0.000632 at GOLD; each extra option expiry adds one Ticker record.

The Store pricing card shows these same prices per 1,000 events: "$0.40 / 1,000" on the Quote row means one quote costs 0.04 cents.

What is free (no event other than the start fee): a ticker Yahoo does not know, a data type Yahoo has nothing for, a blocked request, an invalid input value, a symbol that already had its quote in the same run (from the ticker list or another screener), every status row and the run summary. Rows are charged only after they are in your dataset, and your maximum charge per run is respected: rows that do not fit are not delivered, and each ticker affected gets a free skipped status row. A platform restart never delivers or charges a row twice.

Input

Field	Default	What it does
tickers	(prefill: AAPL, MSFT, NVDA)	Yahoo Finance symbols, one per line. Lower case, a leading $ and a finance.yahoo.com/quote/... link are accepted; one line may hold several symbols separated by commas. Duplicates are dropped. A value that is not a symbol becomes a free invalid row, and a symbol Yahoo does not know a free not_found row, each with Yahoo's own suggestions when it has some.
dataTypes	["quote"]	Any of quote, history, financials, profile, analyst, news, options.
historyRange	1mo	1d, 5d, 1mo, 3mo, 6mo, 1y, 2y, 5y, 10y, ytd, max. Ignored when a start date is set. max is everything Yahoo has.
historyInterval	1d	1m, 2m, 5m, 15m, 30m, 60m, 90m, 4h, 1d, 5d, 1wk, 1mo, 3mo.
historyStart	empty	First day, YYYY-MM-DD (UTC). Replaces the range.
historyEnd	empty	Last day, YYYY-MM-DD (UTC), inclusive. Needs a start date. Empty means up to now.
historyOutput	nested	nested: one Ticker record per ticker. rows: one Candle row per candle.
includePrePost	false	Intraday intervals only: add pre-market and after-hours candles.
statements	all three	income, balance, cashflow.
statementPeriods	["annual", "quarterly"]	annual, quarterly, trailing (trailing twelve months, income and cash flow only).
maxNewsPerTicker	20	Newest headlines per ticker, 1 to 50.
newsOutput	nested	nested: one Ticker record per ticker. rows: one News article row per headline.
maxOptionExpirations	1	Expiry dates per ticker, nearest first, 1 to 60. Each is one Ticker record.
screeners	none	Yahoo's predefined lists, run with or without tickers: day_gainers, day_losers, most_actives, trending_us, most_watched_tickers, most_shorted_stocks, fifty_two_wk_gainers, fifty_two_wk_losers, undervalued_growth_stocks, undervalued_large_caps, strong_undervalued_stocks, growth_technology_stocks, aggressive_small_caps, small_cap_gainers, high_dividend_yield, morningstar_five_star_stocks, upside_breakout_stocks_daily, the_acquirers_multiple, day_gainers_dji, day_losers_dji, most_actives_dji, day_gainers_ndx, most_actives_gb, day_gainers_gb, the eleven sectors ms_basic_materials to ms_utilities, top_etfs_us, top_performing_etfs, most_actives_etfs, technology_etfs, bond_etfs, top_mutual_funds, portfolio_anchors, solid_large_growth_funds, solid_midcap_growth_funds, conservative_foreign_funds, high_yield_bond, all_cryptocurrencies_us, most_actives_options, top_options_open_interest, top_options_implied_volatality (Yahoo's own spelling). 49 predefined screeners plus the US trending tickers list.
maxScreenerRows	25	Top rows per screener, 1 to 250 (the trending list has at most 50).

There is no proxy setting, API key or login field. Requests go out directly from the run, and a retry goes through the Apify datacenter proxy, at no extra charge to you. Runs use 256 MB of memory and a 1 hour default timeout; a run that reaches its timeout writes its summary and keeps the rows and charges made so far.

Limits Yahoo sets

• Intraday candles: 1m needs a start within the last 30 days and at most 8 days per run; 2m, 5m, 15m, 30m and 90m need a start within the last 60 days; 60m and 4h within the last 730 days. A window outside these rules is refused before anything is asked or charged, with the rule in a free invalid row.
• Full daily history: historyRange max is asked as an explicit window from 1900, so daily candles come back as far as Yahoo has them (AAPL 11,542 candles from 1980-12-12; KO 16,295 from 1962-01-02).
• Statement depth: US companies return 4 to 5 annual and 5 to 7 quarterly periods per statement; other markets 4 to 5 annual, and the quarterly cash flow was empty for 8 of 15 (half year reporters). Older statements are not served.
• News: the search route returns 45 to 50 items at most for a US ticker and none for the 20 non US tickers tested; the RSS feed carried headlines for 19 of those 20. A ticker gets no_data only when both routes answered empty.
• Options: US stocks listed 12 to 28 expiry dates (^SPX 53); a fund, a crypto asset, a currency and most non US stocks have none (free no_data).
• Screeners: up to 250 rows per screener; the trending list carries at most 50 symbols.
• Unknown names: up to 25 suggestion lookups per run; values beyond that still get their free row, without suggestions.

What this Actor does NOT do

• No real time or licensed exchange feed: rows carry Yahoo's own delay per exchange in exchangeDataDelayedBy, and the data is not meant for trading decisions.
• No data for delisted tickers: Yahoo answers them as unknown or as a listing without a price, and they come back as free status rows.
• No option Greeks, option filters, unusual activity lists or one flat row per option contract: the chain of an expiry comes nested in one record with Yahoo's own fields.
• No AI summaries or explanations.
• Statement periods come nested in one record per ticker, not as one flat row per period.
• No standalone search output and no news by free text query: a name or a typo comes back as a free row with Yahoo's candidates (up to 25 lookups per run), and news is by ticker.
• No market summary or sector tables, and no language or region setting.
• At most 50 news items per ticker.
• No ESG scores: Yahoo's route returned none for 60 of 60 symbols tested.
• No statements older than Yahoo serves on this route: about 4 to 5 fiscal years and 5 to 7 quarters.
• Dividends and splits come as lists inside the history record, not as rows of their own.
• No custom screener queries: the predefined lists only.
• No memory between runs: a scheduled run delivers and charges its rows again, and there are no alerts and no change detection.
• No guessing of a ticker from a company name: every value is read as a symbol exactly as given.

About the data

The data is Yahoo Finance's public data as Yahoo shows it, read from the same public JSON endpoints the Yahoo Finance website uses. Quotes are delayed per exchange as the exchangeDataDelayedBy field says. Respecting Yahoo's terms and the rights of the exchanges and data providers behind the data is your responsibility. Nothing here is investment advice.

API examples

Every run is also a Yahoo Finance API call over the Apify API: send the input, read the rows.

curl (synchronous run, returns the rows):

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/automation_craft~yahoo-finance-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"tickers":["AAPL","MSFT","NVDA"],"dataTypes":["quote"]}'

Node.js with apify-client:

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('automation_craft/yahoo-finance-scraper').call({
    tickers: ['AAPL', 'MSFT', 'NVDA'],
    dataTypes: ['quote'],
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
for (const row of items) if (row.type === 'quote') console.log(row.symbol, row.regularMarketPrice, row.currency, row.exchangeDataDelayedBy);

Python with apify-client:

import os
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient(os.environ["APIFY_TOKEN"])
run = client.actor("automation_craft/yahoo-finance-scraper").call(
    run_input={"tickers": ["AAPL", "MSFT", "NVDA"], "dataTypes": ["quote"]}
)
for row in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    if row["type"] == "quote":
        print(row["symbol"], row.get("regularMarketPrice"), row.get("currency"), row.get("exchangeDataDelayedBy"))

FAQ

Is there an official Yahoo Finance API?

This Actor is not an official Yahoo product. It reads the public JSON endpoints behind finance.yahoo.com with no login and no API key, and gives you the result as rows you can fetch through the Apify API, so you do not need a key of your own.

Is Yahoo Finance data real time or delayed?

It depends on the exchange, and every Quote row says it in exchangeDataDelayedBy (minutes) and quoteSourceName. In our sample US exchanges, currencies and crypto read 0 minutes, London, XETRA, Paris, Hong Kong and the Indian exchanges 15, Tokyo and ASX 20, and CME group futures 10.

Can I get quarterly financial statements from Yahoo Finance?

Yes. Pick the Financial statements data type and set statementPeriods to quarterly (alone or with annual and trailing); you get the income statement, balance sheet and cash flow under Yahoo's own line names. Yahoo serves about 5 to 7 quarters and 4 to 5 years; older periods are not available on this route.

Does it work for delisted stocks?

No. Yahoo answers a delisted symbol as unknown or as a listing without a price, and the Actor returns a free not_found or no_data status row for it instead of charging you.

How do I get Yahoo Finance data into Google Sheets?

Run the Actor with historyOutput or newsOutput set to rows for one row per candle or headline, then export the dataset as CSV or Excel, or connect the run to Google Sheets, n8n or Make through Apify's integrations with the same input JSON.

Why does this Actor run with limited permissions?

It runs with Apify's limited permissions, the least privilege level: it reads its input and writes only its own run's dataset, which it also reads back after a platform restart so no row is delivered or charged twice. It opens no named store and touches nothing else in your account.

Changelog

See the Changelog tab of this Actor (CHANGELOG.md in the source).

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This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Yahoo. It reads only publicly available Yahoo Finance data.