Yahoo Finance Stock Data Scraper

Export public Yahoo Finance quote metadata and historical OHLCV price rows for stocks, ETFs, indices, crypto, forex, and funds.

Use this actor when you need a repeatable CSV, JSON, Excel, or API export of market data for spreadsheets, dashboards, backtests, research notebooks, or AI-agent workflows.

At a glance

• Input: Yahoo Finance symbols such as AAPL, MSFT, SPY, BTC-USD, EURUSD=X, or ^GSPC.
• Output: Quote metadata plus historical open, high, low, close, adjusted close, volume, dividends, splits, date, exchange, currency, timezone, and source URL.
• Time controls: Choose Yahoo Finance chart range and interval.
• Best for: Stock data exports, OHLCV datasets, market dashboards, and Yahoo Finance API alternative workflows.
• No login required: Uses public Yahoo Finance data.

Ready-to-run examples

Use these saved Store examples as starting points. Open any example to prefill the Actor input, then adjust URLs, keywords, limits, or filters for your own run.

• Yahoo Finance Risk Free Market Data Sample
• Yahoo Finance International Tickers
• Yahoo Finance Historical Prices Export
• Yahoo Finance Analyst Target Sample
• Yahoo Finance 52 Week Highs Watchlist
• Yahoo Finance High Volume Stocks
• View all ready-to-run examples (30 examples)

What can it do?

• Export Yahoo Finance stock data: Save historical OHLCV rows for public symbols.
• Collect quote metadata: Add exchange, currency, previous close, regular market price, and timezone context.
• Build chart datasets: Choose ranges and intervals for daily, weekly, monthly, and intraday-style rows when available.
• Handle mixed asset classes: Use stocks, ETFs, indices, crypto pairs, forex pairs, and funds in one run.
• Use as a Yahoo Finance API alternative: Run from the Apify UI, API, schedules, webhooks, or the official Apify MCP server.

Common workflows

• Investment research: Export OHLCV rows for watchlists and compare price movement over time.
• Dashboard feeds: Send fresh rows to Google Sheets, BigQuery, a database, or a BI tool.
• Backtest prep: Collect consistent symbol/date/open/high/low/close/volume rows.
• Market monitoring: Schedule daily runs for a set of symbols and track latest saved rows.
• AI-agent analysis: Let an agent fetch recent prices before summarizing a symbol or watchlist.

Input example

{
  "symbols": ["AAPL", "MSFT", "SPY", "BTC-USD"],
  "range": "1mo",
  "interval": "1d",
  "includeRawTimestamps": true,
  "maxConcurrency": 3,
  "maxRunSeconds": 270
}

Output example

{
  "symbol": "AAPL",
  "exchangeName": "NMS",
  "currency": "USD",
  "regularMarketPrice": 212.44,
  "previousClose": 211.18,
  "chartPreviousClose": 210.79,
  "timezone": "America/New_York",
  "range": "1mo",
  "interval": "1d",
  "timestamp": 1783036800,
  "date": "2026-07-02T13:30:00.000Z",
  "open": 211.52,
  "high": 214.12,
  "low": 210.88,
  "close": 212.44,
  "adjustedClose": 212.44,
  "volume": 54210000,
  "dividend": null,
  "splitRatio": null,
  "sourceUrl": "https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-03T10:00:00.000Z"
}

Input configuration

Setting	JSON key	What to enter
Ticker symbols	symbols	Yahoo Finance symbols, one per row.
Range	range	Chart range such as 1mo, 1y, 5y, ytd, or max.
Interval	interval	Candle interval such as 1d, 1wk, 1mo, or supported intraday intervals.
Include raw Unix timestamps	includeRawTimestamps	Keeps Yahoo's raw timestamp in addition to the ISO date.
Maximum concurrency	maxConcurrency	Number of symbols to request at the same time.
Maximum run time	maxRunSeconds	Caps requested work at 60–300 seconds. The Actor reserves the final 30 seconds to save completed rows and pending symbols.
Resume pending symbols	resumeSymbols	Optional symbols copied from the PENDING_SYMBOLS key-value record after a partial run. They can be used on their own or with symbols; duplicates are skipped.

Output fields

Field	Description
symbol, exchangeName, currency	Requested symbol and market context.
regularMarketPrice, previousClose, chartPreviousClose	Quote-level price metadata from Yahoo Finance.
timezone, range, interval	Chart timezone and requested chart settings.
timestamp, date	Raw Unix timestamp and ISO date for the price row.
open, high, low, close, adjustedClose, volume	OHLCV candle values and Yahoo's adjusted close when available.
dividend, splitRatio	Dividend amount and stock-split ratio at that timestamp when reported by Yahoo Finance.
sourceUrl, scrapedAt	Yahoo Finance source page and scrape timestamp.

Symbols that cannot produce usable rows are recorded in the RUN_SUMMARY key-value record rather than as paid error rows. A run with no usable rows fails with actionable diagnostics.

Pricing

This Actor uses Apify pay-per-event pricing. The prices below come from the current Actor pricing configuration. Apify public plans map to Store discount tiers, so the table shows both the user-facing plan context and the pricing tier name. The final price shown in Apify depends on the user account plan and any custom agreement.

Event	What is charged	Price
start	One-time fee per run.	$0.005

Event	What is charged	Free / no discount	Starter / Bronze	Scale / Silver	Business / Gold	Custom / Platinum	Custom / Diamond
result	One Yahoo Finance chart row saved to the dataset.	$0.115 / 1,000	$0.1 / 1,000	$0.078 / 1,000	$0.06 / 1,000	$0.04 / 1,000	$0.028 / 1,000

Apify may also charge platform usage for compute, storage, proxies, or data transfer outside this Actor pricing. Check the Actor run and the Apify Pricing tab for the exact cost shown to your account.

Only successfully saved chart rows are charged. Failed symbol requests and run-summary diagnostics are not result rows and are not charged.

Tips for best results

• Use Yahoo Finance's exact symbol format, including suffixes like =X, -USD, or leading ^ for indices.
• Pair short intervals with short ranges; Yahoo limits how much intraday history is available.
• Keep maxConcurrency moderate for larger watchlists.
• Use includeRawTimestamps when downstream tools need Unix timestamps.
• If a bounded run stops before every symbol is processed, copy PENDING_SYMBOLS.symbols into resumeSymbols to continue the remaining work.

Limits and caveats

• This actor exports public Yahoo Finance data and does not provide investment advice.
• Some symbols, intervals, or ranges may be unavailable or delayed on Yahoo Finance.
• Intraday ranges can be limited by Yahoo's public chart endpoint.
• Yahoo Finance can rate-limit or return a block page. The Actor retries transient responses with bounded backoff, but it does not guarantee every public symbol is available.
• A partial run keeps saved data and records RUN_SUMMARY plus PENDING_SYMBOLS; a fully empty valid lookup fails instead of returning a misleading empty success.
• Always verify financial data before using it for trading, compliance, or high-stakes decisions.

API usage

curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/fetch_cat~yahoo-finance-stock-data-scraper/runs?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "symbols": ["AAPL", "MSFT", "SPY"],
    "range": "1mo",
    "interval": "1d"
  }'

MCP and AI agents

You can run this actor through the official Apify MCP server at https://mcp.apify.com.

For a focused single-actor tool, use:

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=fetch_cat/yahoo-finance-stock-data-scraper

Agent-friendly inputs are symbols, range, interval, includeRawTimestamps, maxConcurrency, maxRunSeconds, and resumeSymbols.

FAQ

Can I export Yahoo Finance data to CSV or Excel?
Yes. Download the Apify dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON, XML, RSS, or through the Dataset API.

Can I scrape crypto or forex?
Yes, when Yahoo Finance supports the symbol, such as BTC-USD or EURUSD=X.

Why did a symbol return no rows?
The symbol may be invalid, unavailable for that interval/range, delisted, or temporarily blocked by Yahoo. Check RUN_SUMMARY for its diagnostic; no paid error row is created.

Is this real-time market data?
No guarantee. Yahoo Finance public data can be delayed or incomplete depending on the symbol and market.

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Support

If a run fails, returns no data, or a field looks wrong, open an issue from the Actor page.

Please include the Apify run ID or run URL, input JSON, one example public URL, query, or input item, what you expected, and what the dataset returned. Small reproducible inputs make parsing or site-layout issues much faster to fix.

Privacy and data handling

This Actor runs with Apify limited permissions and only processes data needed for the documented run. It uses ticker or market inputs and public market-data results to produce the output dataset and sends requests to public Yahoo Finance Stock Data pages/endpoints; results are stored in Apify run storage for your account. FetchCat does not use your inputs or outputs for advertising, does not use them for model training, and does not retain them outside the Apify run except for transient support debugging when you explicitly share run details. You are responsible for using the Actor lawfully, respecting the target site's terms, and avoiding unnecessary personal or sensitive data in inputs.