# Yahoo Finance Quote Scraper (`devilscrapes/yahoo-finance-quote-scraper`) Actor

Pull Yahoo Finance quote snapshots and historical OHLCV candles for any list of tickers — equities, ETFs, indices, crypto, FX. We handle the retries, fingerprint rotation, and proxy routing so the data lands. One typed row per symbol, JSON or CSV export.

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

## Pricing

Pay per event

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

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## Yahoo Finance Quote Scraper

**💰 $6.20 / 1 000 symbols**  ·  pay only for results  ·  no credit card to try

*We do the dirty work so your dataset stays clean.* 😈

Pull Yahoo Finance quote snapshots and historical OHLCV candles for any list of tickers — equities, ETFs, indices, crypto, FX. We handle the retries, fingerprint rotation, and proxy routing so the data lands. One typed row per symbol, JSON or CSV export.

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### 🎯 What this scrapes

Give it a list of Yahoo Finance tickers — equities, ETFs, indices (`^GSPC`), crypto (`BTC-USD`), or FX pairs (`EURUSD=X`) — and it returns one coherent record per symbol: a current quote snapshot (price, previous close, 52-week range, exchange, timezone) plus recent OHLCV candle history for the range and interval you choose. It's a snapshot/polling Actor, not a live streaming feed, built for the quote + chart JSON surface Yahoo Finance itself serves. Three Apify Store rivals already run this same data cluster at real volume (776, 321, and 137 users) — this Actor targets the same demand with per-symbol fault isolation so one bad ticker never sinks your whole batch.

### 🔥 What we handle for you

- 🛡️ **Browser fingerprint rotation** — `curl-cffi` impersonates real Chrome / Firefox / Safari TLS handshakes on every request, standing policy regardless of how clean a target looks today.
- 🔁 **Retries with exponential backoff** on `429` / `5xx` / network errors — up to 5 attempts per symbol, `Retry-After` honoured.
- 🌐 **Apify Proxy routing** wired on every run — pick `RESIDENTIAL` if you want it, default groups suffice today.
- 🧩 **Per-symbol fault isolation** — one bad ticker (typo, delisted, no candles) never sinks the rest of your batch; the run only fails if every symbol comes back empty.
- 🧊 **Clean, typed dataset rows** — Pydantic-validated, ISO-8601 timestamps, one coherent quote + history object per symbol.
- 💰 **Pay-Per-Event pricing** — you pay only for symbols that return data. No data, no charge beyond the flat warm-up fee.

### 💡 Use cases

- **Portfolio dashboards** — pull current price + recent history for your whole watch list in one run.
- **Screening / backtesting** — bulk-fetch OHLCV candles across a symbol universe (equities, ETFs, crypto, FX) for a strategy backtest.
- **Alerting** — schedule a daily run, diff successive snapshots, alert when price crosses a threshold.
- **Cross-asset dashboards** — mix equities, indices, crypto, and FX pairs in a single call; Yahoo's ticker syntax covers all four.

### ⚙️ How to use it

1. Click **Try for free** at the top of the page.
2. Fill in the input form — most fields have sensible defaults.
3. Click **Start**. Output streams into the run's dataset.
4. Export from **Storage → Dataset** as JSON, CSV, or Excel — or fetch via the API.

### 📥 Input

| Field | Type | Required | Default | Notes |
|---|---|:--:|---|---|
| `symbols` | `array` | **yes** | \['AAPL', '^GSPC', 'BTC-USD'] | Yahoo Finance ticker symbols. Equities/ETFs as-is (AAPL), indices ^-prefixed (^GSPC), crypto -USD-suffixed (BTC-USD),… |
| `range` | `string` | no | '1mo' | How far back to pull candle history. |
| `interval` | `string` | no | '1d' | Candle granularity within the requested range. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | `object` | no | {'useApifyProxy': True} | Apify Proxy routing. Default groups suffice against this target; RESIDENTIAL stays selectable if you need it. |

#### Example input

```json
{
  "symbols": [
    "AAPL",
    "^GSPC",
    "BTC-USD"
  ],
  "range": "1mo",
  "interval": "1d",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

### 📤 Output

Every row is one dataset item.

| Field | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| `symbol` | `string` | Yahoo Finance ticker symbol (meta.symbol). |
| `currency` | `['string', 'null']` | Quote currency (meta.currency). |
| `exchange_name` | `['string', 'null']` | Exchange code (meta.exchangeName). |
| `instrument_type` | `['string', 'null']` | Instrument type, e.g. EQUITY, INDEX, CRYPTOCURRENCY (meta.instrumentType). |
| `regular_market_price` | `['number', 'null']` | Current/last regular market price. |
| `previous_close` | `['number', 'null']` | Previous session close. |
| `regular_market_time` | `['string', 'null']` | ISO-8601 UTC timestamp of the last regular market price. |
| `fifty_two_week_high` | `['number', 'null']` | 52-week high. |
| `fifty_two_week_low` | `['number', 'null']` | 52-week low. |
| `timezone` | `['string', 'null']` | Exchange timezone code. |
| `requested_range` | `string` | Echo of the requested range input. |
| `requested_interval` | `string` | Echo of the requested interval input. |
| `candle_count` | `integer` | Number of candles returned; 0 when the symbol is valid but has no candles for the requested range/interval. |
| `candles` | `array` | OHLCV candle history (timestamp, open, high, low, close, volume). May be empty. |

#### Example output

```json
{
  "symbol": "AAPL",
  "currency": "USD",
  "exchange_name": "NMS",
  "instrument_type": "EQUITY",
  "regular_market_price": 227.52,
  "previous_close": 226.01,
  "regular_market_time": "2026-09-10T20:00:00Z",
  "fifty_two_week_high": 260.1,
  "fifty_two_week_low": 164.08,
  "timezone": "EST",
  "requested_range": "1mo",
  "requested_interval": "1d",
  "candle_count": 2,
  "candles": [
    {
      "timestamp": "2026-09-09T13:30:00Z",
      "open": 224.1,
      "high": 227.9,
      "low": 223.55,
      "close": 226.01,
      "volume": 51234000
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "2026-09-10T13:30:00Z",
      "open": 226.2,
      "high": 228.4,
      "low": 225.6,
      "close": 227.52,
      "volume": 47821000
    }
  ]
}
```

### 💰 Pricing

Pay-Per-Event — you pay only when these events fire:

| Event | USD | What it is |
|---|---:|---|
| `actor-start` | $0.2 | One-off warm-up charge per run |
| `result` | $0.006 | Per dataset item |

Example: 1 000 symbols at the rates above ≈ **$6.20**. No subscription, no minimum, no card to start — Apify gives every new account $5 of free credit.

### 🚧 Limitations

- No options chains, financials/earnings, analyst estimates, news, or screener data — quote + chart only.
- Snapshot/polling only, not a real-time streaming feed.
- No symbol search/autocomplete — supply exact Yahoo ticker syntax.
- Currency is passed through as reported by Yahoo, not cross-symbol normalized.

### ❓ FAQ

**Is this real-time streaming?**

No — this is a REST snapshot: current quote plus recent OHLCV history for the range/interval you choose. For tick-by-tick data, use a WebSocket feed instead.

**What ticker syntax does it expect?**

Yahoo's own syntax: equities/ETFs as-is (AAPL), indices ^-prefixed (^GSPC), crypto -USD-suffixed (BTC-USD), FX =X-suffixed (EURUSD=X).

**What happens if I typo a symbol or it's delisted?**

That one symbol is skipped with a logged reason and the rest of your batch still returns. The run only fails if every requested symbol comes back empty.

**Do you cover options, financials, or news?**

Not in this Actor — quote and chart data only. Options chains, financials/earnings, analyst estimates, news, and screener endpoints are out of scope.

### 💬 Your feedback

Spotted a bug, hit a weird edge case, or need a new field? Open an
issue on the Actor's **Issues** tab on Apify Console — we ship
fixes weekly and we read every report.

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# Actor input Schema

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

Yahoo Finance ticker symbols. Equities/ETFs as-is (<code>AAPL</code>), indices <code>^</code>-prefixed (<code>^GSPC</code>), crypto <code>-USD</code>-suffixed (<code>BTC-USD</code>), FX <code>=X</code>-suffixed (<code>EURUSD=X</code>).

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

How far back to pull candle history.

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

Candle granularity within the requested range.

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

Apify Proxy routing. Default groups suffice against this target; RESIDENTIAL stays selectable if you need it.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "symbols": [
    "AAPL",
    "^GSPC",
    "BTC-USD"
  ],
  "range": "1mo",
  "interval": "1d",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `datasetItems` (type: `string`):

All dataset items as JSON.

## `datasetItemsCsv` (type: `string`):

Same data exported to CSV.

## `datasetView` (type: `string`):

Open the run dataset in the Console.

# 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",
        "^GSPC",
        "BTC-USD"
    ],
    "range": "1mo",
    "interval": "1d",
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("devilscrapes/yahoo-finance-quote-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",
        "^GSPC",
        "BTC-USD",
    ],
    "range": "1mo",
    "interval": "1d",
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

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

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).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",
    "^GSPC",
    "BTC-USD"
  ],
  "range": "1mo",
  "interval": "1d",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call devilscrapes/yahoo-finance-quote-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,devilscrapes/yahoo-finance-quote-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/H6Ks2Ga9b5ObVRDI3/builds/1vZjQB2luvZosfOoJ/openapi.json