Yahoo Finance Scraper — Quotes, Options Chains, Fundamentals & News

The complete Yahoo Finance data layer in one actor — live quotes, OHLCV history, option chains with implied volatility, company fundamentals, analyst price targets, ticker news, and market screeners. No API key, no Yahoo account, no scraping browser needed — the actor talks to the same JSON endpoints finance.yahoo.com uses.

Stocks, crypto (BTC-USD), indices (^GSPC), ETFs, forex (EURUSD=X), and futures — one input shape for all of it.

Modes

Mode	What you get
quote	Live quote per ticker — price, day change %, volume, market cap, P/E, EPS, 52-week range, market state
chart	OHLCV candles — any interval (1m→1mo), any range (1d→max), adjusted close included
news	Ticker-linked headlines — title, publisher, link, timestamp, related tickers
options	Full option chains — calls/puts with strike, bid/ask, volume, open interest, implied volatility, expiry
financials	Fundamentals — revenue, net income, margins, cash/debt, P/E ratios, EPS growth, analyst target price + buy/hold/sell consensus
screener	Yahoo's predefined screens — day gainers/losers, most actives, most shorted, undervalued growth, growth tech, small-cap movers
watch	Price-move monitor — emit only tickers that moved ≥ your threshold. Schedule hourly for a movers-only feed

Why this and not a paid market-data API?

Official market-data APIs (Polygon, Alpha Vantage, IEX) gate real-time quotes, options chains, and fundamentals behind $30–200/mo tiers and key management. This actor pulls the same fields from Yahoo's public API for $1 per 1,000 rows — no key rotation, no quota tier, no contract.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	quote	quote / chart / news / options / financials / screener / watch
symbols	array	["AAPL","NVDA","BTC-USD"]	Yahoo tickers — equities, BTC-USD crypto, ^GSPC indices, EURUSD=X forex, ES=F futures
interval	string	1d	Chart candle size: 1m–1mo
range	string	1mo	Chart lookback: 1d–max
expiry	int	—	Options: specific expiry (unix timestamp); empty = nearest
screen	string	day_gainers	Screener preset — see modes table
newsPerSymbol	int	10	Headlines per ticker (news mode)
minChangePct	number	—	Watch filter — only movers ≥ this % get rows
maxResults	int	100	Row cap (per symbol for chart/options, total for screener)
proxyConfiguration	object	—	Optional Apify proxy

Example inputs

Watch for any portfolio stock moving 3%+ (schedule every 30 min):

{"mode": "watch", "symbols": ["AAPL","NVDA","TSLA","AMD","SPY"], "minChangePct": 3}

Daily candles for backtests:

{"mode": "chart", "symbols": ["SPY","QQQ"], "interval": "1d", "range": "5y", "maxResults": 2000}

AAPL option chain for the nearest expiry:

{"mode": "options", "symbols": ["AAPL"], "maxResults": 500}

Analyst consensus across mega-caps:

{"mode": "financials", "symbols": ["AAPL","MSFT","GOOGL","AMZN","NVDA"]}

Example output

{
  "recordType": "quote",
  "symbol": "NVDA",
  "name": "NVIDIA Corporation",
  "price": 229.28,
  "changePct": -0.52,
  "volume": 187445213,
  "marketCap": 5536424132608,
  "peRatio": 45.2,
  "week52High": 246.5,
  "marketState": "CLOSED",
  "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/NVDA"
}

{
  "recordType": "option",
  "symbol": "AAPL",
  "underlyingPrice": 336.64,
  "contractSymbol": "AAPL261012C00300000",
  "side": "call",
  "strike": 300,
  "lastPrice": 36.9,
  "volume": 1204,
  "openInterest": 15832,
  "impliedVolatility": 1.219,
  "inTheMoney": true
}

Use cases

• Screeners → pipeline — pull day_gainers hourly, feed movers into our StockTwits Scraper for sentiment, DexScreener for token context
• Backtest data — chart mode gives 5+ years of daily candles per ticker in one run
• Options flow — chain snapshots with IV + OI for volatility research
• Earnings/fundamental models — financials covers revenue, margins, analyst consensus
• Portfolio alerting — watch + schedule = "tell me when anything in my book moves 3%"

Pricing

$1.00 per 1,000 results (pay-per-event). A 500-contract option chain costs $0.50. A 30-ticker watchlist poll costs $0.03.

FAQ

Do I need a Yahoo account or API key? No — the actor uses Yahoo's public JSON endpoints with the standard crumb handshake the site's own frontend performs.

What tickers work? Anything resolvable on finance.yahoo.com: AAPL, ^GSPC (S&P), BTC-USD, ETH-USD, EURUSD=X (forex), ES=F (futures), 0700.HK (international exchanges work too).

Is the data real-time? Quotes come from Nasdaq Real Time Price / Yahoo's feed — same numbers the website shows (15-min delayed for some exchanges, real-time for crypto).

How far back does chart go? range: "max" returns the instrument's full listed history — decades for blue chips.

Rate limits? Yahoo rate-limits aggressively-identified clients — the actor handles crumb rotation automatically. For heavy schedules, enable the proxy option.

Is it legal to scrape this data? The actor only accesses publicly available data — the same pages/APIs a browser sees. Scraping public data for research, monitoring, and analysis is common practice, but platform Terms of Service and the rules in your jurisdiction still apply to how you use it. Consult legal counsel for your specific case.

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