# Yahoo Finance Scraper (`bgfc97/yahoo-finance-scraper`) Actor

Scrape stock, ETF, index, crypto and forex data from Yahoo Finance — live price, day/52-week range, previous close, volume, market/exchange, currency and full OHLCV historical candles — by ticker or by name search. No key, no proxy.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/bgfc97/yahoo-finance-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Bruno](https://apify.com/bgfc97) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, AI, Other
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.75 / 1,000 symbol fetcheds

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

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The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Yahoo Finance Scraper 📈

Scrape market data from **Yahoo Finance** — stocks, ETFs, indexes, crypto and forex. Get live price, ranges, volume and **full OHLCV historical candles** by ticker, or find tickers by name.

Perfect for **trading bots, backtesting, fintech apps, dashboards, portfolio tracking, research and AI/quant datasets.**

### What it extracts

**Per symbol (quote):**

- `symbol`, `name`, `instrument_type`, `currency`, `exchange`
- `price`, `previous_close`, `day_high`, `day_low`
- `fifty_two_week_high`, `fifty_two_week_low`, `volume`, `market_time`
- `history` — array of OHLCV candles (`date, open, high, low, close, adjclose, volume`)

**Per search result:** `symbol`, `name`, `exchange`, `quote_type`, `sector`, `industry`.

### Input

```json
{
  "symbols": ["AAPL", "TSLA", "SPY", "^GSPC", "BTC-USD", "EURUSD=X"],
  "searchQueries": ["nvidia"],
  "range": "1y",
  "interval": "1d",
  "includeHistory": true
}
```

- **symbols** — tickers: stocks (`AAPL`), ETFs (`SPY`), indexes (`^GSPC`), crypto (`BTC-USD`), forex (`EURUSD=X`).
- **range** — `1d`…`max`. **interval** — `1m`…`1mo`.
- **searchQueries** — look up tickers by company/asset name.

### Output example

```json
{
  "type": "quote",
  "symbol": "AAPL",
  "name": "Apple Inc.",
  "currency": "USD",
  "exchange": "NasdaqGS",
  "price": 327.5,
  "previous_close": 325.1,
  "fifty_two_week_high": 340.2,
  "volume": 41250000,
  "history_count": 252,
  "history": [{ "date": "2026-07-15T20:00:00.000Z", "open": 324.9, "high": 328.4, "low": 323.1, "close": 327.5, "volume": 41250000 }]
}
```

### Notes

- Uses Yahoo Finance's public JSON endpoints — free, no key.
- No proxy required (datacenter proxy only helps at very high volume).
- Intraday intervals (`1m`–`60m`) are limited to recent ranges by Yahoo.

# Actor input Schema

## `symbols` (type: `array`):

Ticker symbols to fetch. Stocks (AAPL, TSLA), ETFs (SPY), indexes (^GSPC), crypto (BTC-USD), forex (EURUSD=X).

## `searchQueries` (type: `array`):

Company / asset names to look up the matching ticker symbols.

## `range` (type: `string`):

How far back the historical candles go.

## `interval` (type: `string`):

Granularity of each historical candle.

## `includeHistory` (type: `boolean`):

If ON, each symbol row includes the full OHLCV history array for the chosen range/interval.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional. Yahoo Finance endpoints are open; datacenter proxy only helps at very high volume.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "symbols": [
    "AAPL",
    "TSLA",
    "BTC-USD"
  ],
  "searchQueries": [],
  "range": "1mo",
  "interval": "1d",
  "includeHistory": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "symbols": [
        "AAPL",
        "TSLA",
        "BTC-USD"
    ],
    "searchQueries": [],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": false
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("bgfc97/yahoo-finance-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "symbols": [
        "AAPL",
        "TSLA",
        "BTC-USD",
    ],
    "searchQueries": [],
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": False },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("bgfc97/yahoo-finance-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "symbols": [
    "AAPL",
    "TSLA",
    "BTC-USD"
  ],
  "searchQueries": [],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}' |
apify call bgfc97/yahoo-finance-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=bgfc97/yahoo-finance-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/3wu3LDfONzlQbWpeY/builds/2HpVPCOwtdg1q6fOe/openapi.json