Yahoo Finance Scraper

Scrape Yahoo Finance with no API key and no login. Three modes:

• search — find ticker symbols by name (e.g. "apple" → AAPL).
• quote — current price snapshot for one or more symbols.
• history — OHLCV price history (candles) over a range/interval.

Works for stocks, ETFs, indices (^GSPC), FX (EURUSD=X) and crypto (BTC-USD).

It calls Yahoo's public JSON endpoints directly (query1/query2.finance.yahoo.com) — no HTML parsing, no scraping fragility.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Notes
mode	string	quote	search | quote | history
query	string	—	Search text (search mode), e.g. apple
symbols	array	—	Tickers (quote/history mode), e.g. ["AAPL","MSFT","BTC-USD"]
range	string	1mo	1d,5d,1mo,3mo,6mo,1y,5y,max (history)
interval	string	1d	1m,5m,1d,1wk,1mo (history; intraday needs short range)
maxItems	integer	100	Caps history rows / search results
proxyConfiguration	object	{ "useApifyProxy": false }	Optional; only needed if Yahoo rate-limits your IP (429)

Examples

{ "mode": "search", "query": "apple", "maxItems": 20 }

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

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

Output

search rows:

{ "symbol": "AAPL", "name": "Apple Inc.", "exchange": "NASDAQ", "quoteType": "EQUITY", "sector": "Technology", "industry": "Consumer Electronics" }

quote rows:

{ "symbol": "AAPL", "price": 201.0, "currency": "USD", "exchange": "NMS", "previousClose": 198.0, "changePct": 1.52, "fiftyTwoWeekHigh": 260.1, "fiftyTwoWeekLow": 169.2, "marketTime": "2026-06-11T20:00:00.000Z" }

history rows (one per bar):

{ "symbol": "AAPL", "date": "2026-05-12T13:30:00.000Z", "open": 210.9, "high": 211.3, "low": 206.7, "close": 207.0, "volume": 51000000 }

Every successful row has ok: true. Failures and empty results come back as ok: false rows with an errorCode (RATE_LIMITED, NOT_FOUND, NO_RESULTS, BAD_INPUT, NETWORK, …) and are never charged.

Pricing

$1.00 per 1,000 rows ($0.001 each), with no run-start fee. Flat rate — no volume tiers, no plan gates — and one item charge per successful row.

A row is a row in every mode: a search hit, a quote snapshot, or one OHLCV bar. A 10-symbol quote run is 10 rows ($0.01); one year of daily candles for a single ticker is about 250 rows ($0.25). maxItems is a hard cap on rows, so it doubles as your spend cap.

Diagnostic, empty, rate-limited and NOT_FOUND rows are not charged, and because there is no start fee a run that returns only diagnostics costs nothing at all.

Notes

• Yahoo rejects generic User-Agents — the actor always sends a browser-like UA and rotates it per retry.
• Yahoo rate-limits aggressively. On HTTP 429 the actor backs off and retries; persistent limits surface as RATE_LIMITED rows. Enable Apify Proxy if you hit this under high volume.
• Invalid symbols surface as NOT_FOUND rows (other symbols in the batch still return data).