Fetch Stocks data using Yahoo Finance in Python

The Yahoo Finance API is a range of libraries/APIs/methods used to obtain historical and real time data for a variety of financial markets and products, as shown on Yahoo Finance- https://finance.yahoo.com/.

Some of the offerings include market data on Cryptocurrencies, regular currencies, stocks and bonds, fundamental and options data, and market analysis and news.

Why to use Yahoo Finance ?

• Free
• Simple and easy to use

Installation

1. yfinance

pip install yfinance

2. pandas_datareader

pip install pandas_datareader

Code

And that’s how you can fetch stocks historical data and save it locally on your disk, it can be automated to get real-time/live data as well.