Yahoo Finance Data Actor

Extract public Yahoo Finance quote metadata, historical OHLCV price bars, or symbol-search matches into an Apify dataset. Use it for market research, portfolio dashboards, backtesting inputs, and agent workflows that need compact structured finance records.

Operations

Operation	Required input	Output
quote	symbols	One current-market metadata record per symbol
history	symbols	Timestamped OHLCV bars using range and interval
search	query	Yahoo Finance symbol matches with name, exchange, type, sector, and industry when supplied

Example quote input:

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

Example history input:

{"operation":"history","symbols":["AAPL"],"range":"1y","interval":"1d","maxResults":500}

Output

Every dataset item has a recordType (quote, history, or search) and symbol. Quote and history records include market name, currency, exchange, and price fields. History records additionally include timestamp, open, high, low, close, and volume. Search records include shortName, quoteType, sector, and industry where Yahoo supplies them. A SUMMARY key-value record contains delivery counts and warnings.

Pricing

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.00005 per run
Dataset record	$0.0005 per delivered record

For example, a quote run for three symbols costs three record events plus the start event. The live Apify monetization configuration is authoritative.

Limits and reliability

The actor uses public Yahoo Finance chart and search endpoints with bounded requests and a 20-second per-request timeout. It does not log in, bypass challenges, or use private cookies. Yahoo may return empty results, rate-limit requests, or restrict intraday history based on its own retention rules; those conditions are reported in SUMMARY and the terminal status. Results are capped by maxResults (1–5,000) and symbols are capped at 50.

Yahoo Finance data is provided for informational and research use. Check Yahoo Finance terms and applicable market-data licensing requirements before using results commercially or redistributing them.

Use cases

• Schedule repeatable collection and export results to downstream workflows.
• Run a one-off research job and export the structured result as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS from Apify.
• Schedule the same input to monitor changes over time and send completed datasets to a webhook or integration.
• Feed schema-shaped records into a database, spreadsheet, BI tool, or AI workflow with the source URL retained for verification.

Input

Field	Type	Description
operation	string	Use quote for current market metadata, history for OHLCV bars, or search to find symbols by company name. Example: history.
symbols	array	Use for quote or history. Enter Yahoo Finance symbols such as AAPL, MSFT, BTC-USD, or ^GSPC. Maximum 50 symbols.
query	string	Use only with search to find Yahoo Finance symbols by company, fund, index, or cryptocurrency name. Example: renewable energy.
range	string	Use with history to select a Yahoo Finance range. Examples: 1mo, 1y, 5y, max. Ignored for quote and search.
interval	string	Use with history for bar size. Intraday intervals are limited by Yahoo Finance retention; daily is the safest default.
maxResults	integer	Maximum dataset records to deliver. History is capped across all requested symbols; search is capped to its returned matches.
includePrePost	boolean	Include pre-market and after-hours chart data when Yahoo Finance supplies it. Applies to quote and history.

Run Yahoo Finance Data Actor with the Apify API

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('muhammadafzal/yahoo-finance').call({
  "operation": "quote",
  "symbols": [
    "AAPL"
  ],
  "query": "Apple",
  "range": "1mo",
  "interval": "1d",
  "maxResults": 100,
  "includePrePost": false
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

You can also run the Actor from Apify Console, schedules, webhooks, the REST API, Make, Zapier, n8n, or the hosted Apify MCP server.

Responsible use

Use this Actor only for data you are authorized to access. Follow the target website's terms, robots and access policies, and applicable privacy, database, copyright, anti-spam, and data-protection laws. Do not use it to bypass authentication or other access controls, collect private data, harass people, or make high-impact decisions without independent verification.

Support

When reporting a problem, include the Actor run ID, a redacted input, the expected result, and a small public example URL when applicable. Do not post API tokens, cookies, credentials, or personal data in an issue.