📈 Yahoo Finance Stock and Crypto Scraper

🚀 Collect OHLCV price data for stocks, cryptocurrencies, forex pairs, and ETFs with customizable time intervals from 1 minute to monthly across any date range.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-04-23

Whether you are a trader backtesting strategies, a financial analyst building pricing models, or a researcher studying market patterns, this scraper delivers structured price data for any symbol available on Yahoo Finance. Configure your symbols, pick a time interval, and get historical or intraday data in seconds.

No API keys, no coding, no manual chart scraping. Just enter your tickers, click Start, and download structured market data as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

🎯 Target	Yahoo Finance price data (stocks, crypto, forex, ETFs)
🔎 Best for	Trading analysis, financial modeling, portfolio tracking, market research

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📋 What it does

• Collects open, high, low, close, and volume (OHLCV) data points for any Yahoo Finance symbol
• Supports stocks (AAPL, TSLA), crypto (BTC-USD, ETH-USD), forex (EUR=X), and ETFs (SPY, QQQ, VOO)
• Provides 8 time intervals from 1-minute to monthly and 10 date ranges from 1 day to max history
• Returns instrument metadata including 52-week highs/lows, current price, exchange, currency, and instrument type

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🎬 Demo

🚧 Coming soon

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⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Description
Max Items	integer	Free users: limited to 10 data points. Paid users: up to 1,000,000.
Symbols	string[]	Stock tickers, crypto pairs, forex symbols, or ETFs (e.g. AAPL, BTC-USD, EUR=X, SPY).
Interval	select	Time between data points: 1 Minute, 5 Minutes, 15 Minutes, 30 Minutes, 1 Hour, 1 Day, 1 Week, 1 Month.
Date Range	select	How far back to go: 1 Day, 5 Days, 1 Month, 3 Months, 6 Months, 1 Year, 2 Years, 5 Years, 10 Years, Max.

Example 1: Daily stock data for one month

{
    "symbols": ["AAPL", "GOOGL", "BTC-USD"],
    "interval": "1d",
    "range": "1mo",
    "maxItems": 100
}

Example 2: Hourly crypto data for 5 days

{
    "symbols": ["BTC-USD", "ETH-USD", "SOL-USD"],
    "interval": "1h",
    "range": "5d",
    "maxItems": 500
}

⚠️ Good to Know: Minute-level data is only available for recent dates (typically the last 7 to 30 days). Daily data goes back decades for established stocks. Each symbol takes about 1 second to process.

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📊 Output

🧾 Schema

Each data point includes OHLCV values plus instrument metadata with 18+ fields per record.

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✨ Why choose this scraper

Feature	Details
All asset types in one tool	Stocks, crypto, forex, and ETFs from a single scraper
8 time intervals	From 1-minute intraday to monthly candles
10 date ranges	From 1 day to full historical record
52-week highs and lows	Market context included in every record
Multiple symbols per run	Batch-collect data for dozens of tickers at once
Fast processing	About 1 second per symbol
Export as JSON, CSV, or Excel	Download structured data in the format you need

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✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
🎯	Built for the job. Scoped specifically to this data source so you skip the parser engineering entirely.
🔖	Structured output. Clean, typed fields ready for analysis, dashboards, or downstream pipelines.
⚡	Fast. Optimized request patterns return results in seconds, not minutes.
🔁	Always fresh. Every run pulls live data, so the dataset reflects the source as of run time.
🌐	No infra to manage. Apify handles proxies, retries, scaling, scheduling, and storage.
🛡️	Reliable. Battle-tested across many runs and edge cases, with graceful error handling.
🚫	No code required. Configure in the UI, run from CLI, schedule via cron, or call from any language with the Apify SDK.

📊 Production-grade structured data without the engineering overhead of building and maintaining your own scraper.

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📈 How it compares

Capability	This scraper	Manual chart browsing
Batch symbol collection	Dozens of tickers in one run	One chart at a time
Structured OHLCV output	Ready for analysis	Copy from charts
Flexible intervals	8 options from 1 min to monthly	Limited chart controls
All asset types	Stocks, crypto, forex, ETFs	Separate pages
Export formats	JSON, CSV, Excel	Screenshot or manual copy
Automated scheduling	Daily or hourly monitoring	Manual visits
API access	Programmatic run and retrieval	Not available

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🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account (includes $5 credit)
2. Search for Yahoo Finance Scraper in the Apify Store
3. Enter your symbols, pick an interval and date range
4. Click Start and wait for results
5. Download your data as JSON, CSV, or Excel

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💼 Business cases

Use case	How it helps
Algorithmic trading	Feed historical OHLCV data into backtesting and ML models
Portfolio monitoring	Track holdings and benchmark performance with automated daily pulls
Financial analysis	Build pricing models across stocks, crypto, and forex with structured data
Market research	Study correlations, volatility, and trends across asset classes

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💼 Business use cases

📊 Data & Analytics Build trend reports and dashboards from live source data Feed BI tools, warehouses, and ML pipelines with structured records Run periodic snapshots to track changes over time Compare segments, regions, or categories with consistent fields	🏢 Operations & Strategy Monitor competitor moves, pricing, and inventory shifts Build internal directories and lookup tools backed by current data Power workflows that depend on fresh source records Cut manual data-gathering time from hours to minutes
🎯 Marketing & Growth Identify market opportunities and trending topics Research target audiences and customer personas at scale Power lead-generation pipelines with verified records Track sentiment, reviews, or social signals over time	🛠️ Engineering & Product Prototype features that need real-world data without owning a crawler Replace fragile in-house scrapers with a managed Actor Wire datasets into your apps via the Apify API or webhooks Skip the proxy, retry, and parsing maintenance entirely

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia Empirical datasets for papers, thesis work, and coursework Longitudinal studies tracking changes across snapshots Reproducible research with cited, versioned data pulls Classroom exercises on data analysis and ethical scraping	🎨 Personal and creative Side projects, portfolio demos, and indie app launches Data visualizations, dashboards, and infographics Content research for bloggers, YouTubers, and podcasters Hobbyist collections and personal trackers
🤝 Non-profit and civic Transparency reporting and accountability projects Advocacy campaigns backed by public-interest data Community-run databases for local issues Investigative journalism on public records	🧪 Experimentation Prototype AI and machine-learning pipelines with real data Validate product-market hypotheses before engineering spend Train small domain-specific models on niche corpora Test dashboard concepts with live input

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

💳 Do I need a paid Apify plan to run this actor?

No. You can start right now on the free Apify plan, which includes $5 in free monthly credit. That is enough to run this actor several times and explore the output before committing to anything. Paid plans unlock higher limits, more concurrent runs, and larger datasets. Create a free Apify account here to get started.

🚨 What happens if my run fails or returns no results?

Failed runs are not charged. If the source site changes, proxies get rate-limited, or a specific input matches nothing, re-run the actor or open our contact form and we will investigate. You can also check the run log in the Apify console to see why the run stopped.

📏 How many items can I scrape per run?

Free users are limited to 10 items per run so you can preview the output and confirm the actor works for your use case. Paid users can raise maxItems up to 1,000,000 per run. Upgrade here if you need full scale.

🕒 How fresh is the data?

Every run fetches live data at the moment of execution. There is no cache or delay: the records you get reflect what the source returned at that moment. Schedule the actor to maintain a rolling snapshot of the data you need.

🧑‍💻 Can I call this actor from my own code?

Yes. Apify exposes every actor as a REST endpoint and ships first-class SDKs for Node.js and Python. You can start a run, read the dataset, and handle webhooks from your own app in a few lines. All you need is your Apify API token.

📤 How do I export the data?

Every Apify dataset can be downloaded in one click from the console as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel, HTML, XML, or RSS. You can also pull results programmatically via the Apify API or stream them into BigQuery, S3, and other destinations through built-in integrations.

📅 Can I schedule the actor to run automatically?

Yes. Use the Apify scheduler to run the actor on any cadence, from hourly to monthly. Results are saved to your dataset and can be delivered to webhooks, email, Slack, cloud storage, or automation tools such as Zapier and Make.

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🔌 Automating runs

Schedule the Yahoo Finance Scraper to run hourly, daily, or weekly to maintain an up-to-date price database. Connect with Make or Zapier to trigger runs when markets close. Pair with Google Sheets for automatic spreadsheet updates or Slack for price alerts delivered to your team channel.

🔌 Integrate with your tools

• Make - Automate market data workflows
• Zapier - Get alerts on price movements
• Slack - Deliver market updates to your team
• Google Sheets - Export price data to spreadsheets
• Airbyte - Build data pipelines
• Webhooks - Trigger actions on run completion

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🔌 Integrate with any app

Yahoo Finance Stock and Crypto Scraper connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get run notifications in your channels
• Airbyte - Pipe results into your warehouse
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits and releases
• Google Drive - Export datasets straight to Sheets

You can also use webhooks to trigger downstream actions when a run finishes. Push fresh data into your product backend, or alert your team in Slack.

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🆘 Need help?

Contact us through our support form to request a new scraper, report an issue, or propose a custom project.

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Disclaimer: This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Yahoo, Yahoo Finance, or any financial institution. It accesses only publicly available data. This tool is for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice.

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