Yahoo Finance Scraper — Stocks, ETFs & Crypto | No API Key | from $1.50/1K

For quant analysts, portfolio trackers, and AI agents that need structured stock and crypto price data — without a $599/year Bloomberg terminal or a $25/month Yahoo Finance API subscription.

No API key required. No Yahoo Finance account. $1.50/1,000 quote snapshots · $0.50/1,000 OHLCV bars (Pay Per Event). Every record includes parse_confidence (0.0–1.0) and warnings. Symbols that fail to resolve are not charged.

Scrape live stock quotes and historical OHLCV price data from Yahoo Finance — stocks, ETFs, cryptocurrencies, market indices, and forex pairs, all in one actor. No API key, no authentication, no proxy required. Two modes cover the full financial data workflow: real-time snapshots and bar-level history for any date range. Pay per result.

Whether you need the current price of AAPL, 10 years of daily BTC-USD closes, or a 1-minute intraday chart for SPY, this actor delivers clean structured records at $1.50 per 1,000 results.

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What data you get from Yahoo Finance

Quote mode — real-time price snapshot

One record per symbol with:

• regular_price, prev_close, open, day_high, day_low
• volume, market_cap, price_change_pct
• fifty_two_week_high, fifty_two_week_low
• trailing_pe, forward_pe, dividend_yield
• market_state — REGULAR / PRE / POST / CLOSED
• quote_type — EQUITY / CRYPTOCURRENCY / INDEX / ETF
• name, symbol, currency, exchange
• timestamp — ISO 8601 UTC quote time

History mode — OHLCV bars

One record per bar with:

• date (YYYY-MM-DD for daily bars; ISO timestamp for intraday)
• open, high, low, close, adj_close (split/dividend adjusted), volume
• symbol, currency, mode

All records include parse_confidence (0.0–1.0) and warnings.

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Supported symbol types

Type	Examples
US equities	AAPL, MSFT, GOOGL, TSLA, NVDA
ETFs	SPY, QQQ, VTI, GLD, TLT
Crypto	BTC-USD, ETH-USD, SOL-USD, BNB-USD
Indices	^GSPC (S&P 500), ^DJI (Dow), ^IXIC (Nasdaq)
Forex	EURUSD=X, GBPUSD=X, USDJPY=X
International	ASML.AS, 7203.T, BABA

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How to use

Get live quotes for multiple symbols

{
  "mode": "quote",
  "symbols": ["AAPL", "MSFT", "GOOGL", "BTC-USD", "^GSPC"]
}

Get 1-year daily OHLCV history

{
  "mode": "history",
  "symbols": ["AAPL", "TSLA"],
  "range": "1y",
  "interval": "1d"
}

Get max historical daily closes for crypto

{
  "mode": "history",
  "symbols": ["BTC-USD", "ETH-USD"],
  "range": "max",
  "interval": "1d"
}

Intraday 5-minute bars (last 60 days)

{
  "mode": "history",
  "symbols": ["SPY", "QQQ"],
  "range": "60d",
  "interval": "5m"
}

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Input parameters

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	quote	quote or history
symbols	string[]	required	Ticker symbols (e.g. ["AAPL", "BTC-USD", "^GSPC"])
range	string	1y	History range: 1d, 5d, 1mo, 3mo, 6mo, 1y, 2y, 5y, 10y, ytd, max
interval	string	1d	Bar interval: 1m, 2m, 5m, 15m, 30m, 60m, 90m, 1h, 1d, 1wk, 1mo

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Interval / range compatibility

Interval	Max range
1m	last 7 days only
2m–90m	last 60 days
1h	last 730 days
1d, 1wk, 1mo	max (full history)

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Output schema

Field	Type	Mode
symbol	string	both
name	string	quote
quote_type	string	quote
currency	string	both
exchange	string	both
regular_price	float	quote
prev_close	float	quote
open	float	both
day_high / day_low	float	both
volume	integer	both
market_cap	float	quote
price_change_pct	float	quote
fifty_two_week_high / low	float	quote
trailing_pe / forward_pe	float	quote
dividend_yield	float	quote
market_state	string	quote
timestamp	string	quote
date	string	history
close	float	history
adj_close	float	history
mode	string	both
scraped_at	string	both
parse_confidence	float	both
warnings	array	both

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Why this beats competitors

Data source	Cost	Coverage	Requires account?
This actor	$1.50/1K quotes, $0.50/1K bars	stocks, ETFs, crypto, forex, indices	No
Yahoo Finance API (official)	$25–599/mo	same	Yes + billing
Polygon.io	$29–199/mo	US equities only	Yes
Finnhub	$0/mo free tier (limited)	limited symbols	Yes
Alpha Vantage	$50/mo	US stocks	Yes

Yahoo Finance's official API (YF Data API) costs $25–$599/month. This actor:

• Uses Yahoo Finance's public endpoints — no API key, no registration
• Accesses Yahoo Finance's public endpoints reliably from Apify cloud
• Handles the crumb/cookie auth handshake automatically for quote mode — zero manual steps
• Returns parse_confidence on every record — you know what to trust
• Broad symbol support — stocks, ETFs, crypto, indices, forex, international tickers
• PPE pricing — $1.50/1,000 quote records, $0.50/1,000 history bars, nothing for symbols that fail

Use with AI agents (MCP)

This actor is callable as a tool by AI agents (Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, n8n, LangGraph, CrewAI, or any MCP-compatible client) via Apify's hosted Model Context Protocol server. An agent uses it to look up live stock prices, historical OHLCV data, ETF quotes, or crypto prices mid-conversation — e.g. "what is AAPL's current price?", "show me the last year of daily closes for BTC-USD".

Point your MCP client at this tool:

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

Minimal input an agent can send:

{ "mode": "quote", "symbols": ["AAPL", "BTC-USD", "^GSPC"] }

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Notes on edge cases

• Index symbols (^GSPC, ^DJI) often have null volume — this is a Yahoo Finance limitation.
• Crypto (BTC-USD) may have null market_cap in quote mode depending on market hours.
• Intraday intervals (1m–90m) have limited history — use 1d for long-range data.
• Pre/post market bars available in history mode via the includePrePost flag.

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FAQ

Does it need a Yahoo Finance account or API key? No. Both the quote and history endpoints are public. Quote mode performs an automated crumb/cookie handshake — no manual steps required.

Can it fetch multiple symbols at once? Yes. Quote mode supports up to 100 symbols per run. History mode fetches one symbol at a time (per Yahoo's endpoint design) and batches automatically.

Does it work for international stocks? Yes. Append the exchange suffix — e.g. ASML.AS (Amsterdam), 7203.T (Tokyo). Coverage depends on Yahoo Finance's data licensing.

What is adj_close? The adjusted close price, corrected for stock splits and dividend payments. Use this for accurate long-term return calculations.

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Pricing example

Pay per result (PPE). Charged per record pushed. Symbols that fail to resolve are not charged.

Fetch	Records	Cost
Live quote for 5 stocks	5	~$0.008
Live quotes for 50 stocks + ETFs	50	~$0.075
1 year daily OHLCV for 1 symbol	~252 bars	~$0.13
5 years daily OHLCV for 10 symbols	~12,600 bars	~$6.30
Intraday 5m bars, 30 days, 3 symbols	~11,700 bars	~$5.85

Integrations

Built for quant analysts and portfolio trackers feeding stock, ETF, and crypto price data into models without a paid data subscription — the JSON/dataset output drops into the tools you already run, no glue code:

• n8n / Make / Zapier — trigger a run or pipe every new dataset item into 500+ apps (Google Sheets, Airtable, Slack, HubSpot, your database) with no code: n8n, Make, Zapier.
• Webhooks — fire your own endpoint the moment a run finishes, to push results straight into your pipeline (docs).
• MCP server — expose this actor as a tool to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client so an AI agent can pull this data mid-conversation (guide).
• API & SDKs — fetch the dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel through the Apify REST API or the Python / JS SDKs.

See all Apify integrations.

Legal

Not affiliated with Yahoo Finance or Yahoo Inc. This actor uses publicly accessible endpoints. Use responsibly.

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