Yahoo Finance Price History — Stocks, ETFs, Crypto, FX

Give it a list of Yahoo Finance symbols — stocks (AAPL), ETFs (SPY), crypto (BTC-USD), currency pairs (EURUSD=X), indices (^GSPC), futures (GC=F) — and get one clean row per symbol with the numbers you would work out anyway: last price, day change, return over the period, annualised volatility and maximum drawdown. Or switch to one row per bar (open, high, low, close, adjusted close, volume), with dividends and splits if you want them. $2 per 1,000 symbols (bars are $0.10 per 1,000), no login, no API key, no cookie or crumb to look after.

Run it again — or put it on a schedule — and every symbol row also tells you what changed since the last run: the symbol's rank by return among your list (1 = best), previousRank, rankChange (positive = moved up), whether it is new on the list, and the price move since then. Yahoo only shows you today; this keeps your leaderboard.

What you get

Summary rows (type: "summary", the default output):

Field	What it is
symbol, name, currency, exchange, instrumentType, timezone, url	the instrument (EQUITY, ETF, CRYPTOCURRENCY, CURRENCY, INDEX, FUTURE, MUTUALFUND…) and where its dates are counted
lastPrice, previousClose, change, changePct	Yahoo's latest price, the previous regular session's close, and the move between them
periodReturnPct, totalReturnPct	return over the range, in percent: from the close just before the range starts to the latest close (price only), and the same with dividends reinvested (totalReturnPct)
periodHigh, periodLow, avgVolume	highest high and lowest low in the range, and the average volume per bar
volatility	annualised volatility in percent: standard deviation of the log returns between bars × √252 for daily bars (√365 for crypto; √52, √12 or √4 for weekly, monthly or quarterly bars)
maxDrawdownPct	the deepest fall from a running peak to a later close, in percent (negative; 0 if it never fell)
fiftyTwoWeekHigh, fiftyTwoWeekLow	Yahoo's 52-week range
range, interval, bars, firstDate, lastDate, marketTime	what was read: range asked for, bar size Yahoo returned, number of bars, first and last bar date (exchange-local), time of the latest price
dividendCount, dividendsPerShare, splitCount	only when Include dividends and splits is on
rank, previousRank, rankChange, isNew, previousRunAt, previousLastPrice, changeSinceLastRunPct	your list ranked by periodReturnPct (1 = best), and the change since the previous run with the same range and bar size (all null on the first run)

Bar rows (type: "bar", when Output is bars): symbol, date (exchange-local), time (UTC), open, high, low, close, adjClose, volume. Dividend rows (type: "dividend"): symbol, date, amount, currency. Split rows (type: "split"): symbol, date, numerator, denominator, ratio (e.g. 10:1).

Use it for

• Watchlists and screening — one row per symbol with return, volatility and drawdown side by side; sort a whole index or portfolio in a spreadsheet
• Backtests and models — every daily, weekly or intraday bar for any range, with adjusted close, dividends and splits
• Daily monitoring — schedule it and see who moved up the leaderboard since yesterday
• Dashboards and agents — clean JSON that a BI tool or an AI agent can read without parsing Yahoo's chart format

Input

{ "symbols": ["AAPL", "MSFT", "BTC-USD", "EURUSD=X", "^GSPC"], "range": "1y", "interval": "1d", "output": "summary", "includeDividends": false }

range is one of 1d 5d 1mo 3mo 6mo 1y 2y 5y 10y ytd max; interval (bar size) is one of 1m 2m 5m 15m 30m 60m 90m 1h 4h 1d 5d 1wk 1mo 3mo. Yahoo limits intraday bars: 1m reaches back 8 days; 2m, 5m, 15m, 30m and 90m 60 days; 60m, 1h and 4h 730 days (the Actor tells you before it starts if a combination is not served). range: "max" returns the whole history at the bar size you chose.

The leaderboard is remembered in a named key-value store in your Apify account, one snapshot per range and bar size (it keeps up to 2,000 symbols), so the second run of the same Actor already shows the changes.

Pricing

$2 per 1,000 symbol summaries and $0.10 per 1,000 bars, plus $0.01 per run. Dividend and split rows are billed like bars. Error rows (unknown symbols) are free. The $0.01 run-start fee is the one charge every run pays, even one that returns nothing.

Examples: 100 symbols as summaries cost $0.21. A year of daily bars for 10 symbols is about 2,500 bars: $0.26. Forty years of daily bars for one large stock is about 10,000 bars: $1.01.

Notes

• Not investment advice. Yahoo's data is delayed on many exchanges (often by 15 minutes or more) and is provided by Yahoo for information only. It can contain gaps and errors. Do not trade on it without checking it against your broker or exchange.
• Public data only: the same chart data Yahoo shows on its quote pages, no login. Nothing about you or other people is collected.
• The last bar can be the current session, still trading, so lastPrice and the last bar change during market hours. Dates are the exchange's local calendar dates.
• periodReturnPct is measured the way Yahoo's own charts do it: from the close just before the range starts to the latest close, so 5d is five trading days, ytd is the move since last year's final close, 1d is the day's change, and the figure is the same whatever bar size you pick. For max there is no start, so it runs from the first bar's close; if Yahoo's start value is missing it falls back to the first bar (its open for intraday bars and for a single bar). totalReturnPct starts at the same point and reinvests the dividends paid inside the range.
• volatility and maxDrawdownPct are measured on the bars you chose. volatility needs at least 3 daily closes, so it is null for a single day; intraday bars are reduced to each day's last close first.
• previousClose, change and changePct are Yahoo's day change: the latest regular price against the previous regular session's close (after-hours trading is not counted), the same figures Yahoo shows on its quote page. Crypto and FX trade around the clock, so there Yahoo's "previous close" is its end-of-day mark and can differ slightly from the previous bar's close.
• Yahoo sometimes sends the newest daily bar of a stock without its close (seen in the hours around midnight UTC). The Actor then uses Yahoo's latest regular price as that bar's close, so lastDate and the return reach today. A day Yahoo skipped entirely (it happens now and then with crypto right after midnight UTC) stays out, so bars can be one lower than the number of days.
• Weekly, monthly and quarterly series from Yahoo end with an extra bar that holds only the latest session. The Actor folds it into the current week, month or quarter (earlier open, wider high and low, latest close, volumes added), so you get one bar per period. Yahoo's own 5d bars are returned as they come, and their last bar can be the current session alone.
• Fields that are only filled in some cases: totalReturnPct and adjClose need daily or longer bars (null for intraday); avgVolume is null for instruments Yahoo reports no volume for (currency pairs, mutual funds, some indices such as ^VIX); dividendCount, dividendsPerShare and splitCount appear only with Include dividends and splits; the six since-last-run fields are null on the first run for a given range and bar size, and previousRank/rankChange are null for a symbol that was not in the previous run (isNew is true).
• Ranks are among the symbols of that run. Every symbol keeps the rank and price of the last run it was in, so you can run several watchlists with the same range and bar size; but if you add or remove symbols between runs, a rank change partly reflects the new list. changeSinceLastRunPct is always the plain price move.
• A symbol Yahoo does not know (typo, delisted, wrong suffix) gives a free error row with Yahoo's reason. If Yahoo cannot be reached at all, the run fails instead of returning an empty dataset. Busy or rate-limited responses are retried twice.
• Up to 500 symbols per run. Use Yahoo's ticker format: BRK-B (not BRK.B), ^GSPC, EURUSD=X, 7203.T, 0700.HK, M&M.NS.

To pull macro data by country (GDP, inflation, population), see World Bank Data Scraper.

For AI agents

{"symbols": ["AAPL", "BTC-USD"], "range": "1y"} returns two summary rows with last price, day change, one-year return, volatility and max drawdown. {"symbols": ["AAPL"], "range": "5d", "output": "bars"} returns the five daily bars. Rows have type: summary, bar, dividend, split or error.

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