stockquotes/README.md

`stockquotes` is a Python module for collecting stock, ETF, and mutual fund
quotes and historical data from Yahoo! Finance.

# Branches

* `devel`: current development version
* `stable`: latest stable release

All PRs should be made against devel.

# Requirements
* Python 3.6+
* Beautiful Soup 4

# Installation

    pip3 install git+https://github.com/kj7rrv/stockquotes@stable

Do not install from PyPI; the PyPI package is no longer updated.

# Usage
First, import the `stockquotes` module.

    import stockquotes

To get a stock quote, instantiate a `stockquotes.Stock` object. The only
parameter is the ticker symbol to look up.

    kroger = stockquotes.Stock('KR')

## Basic data
To get the current price of a share, get the `Stock`'s `current_price`.

    kroger_price = kroger.current_price

To get the day gain in dollars, get the `Stock`'s `increase_dollars`.

    kroger_gain_dollars = kroger.increase_dollars

The same value as a percent is available in the `increase_percent` property. To
indicate losses, these values are negative.

## Historical data
The historical data for a stock can be accessed through the `Stock`'s
`historical` property. This is an array of `dict`s, with the first item
representing the most recent quote. The `dict`'s `date` property is a
`datetime` object representing the date the quote is from. `open` is the
opening price for that day. `high` and `low` are the high and low prices,
respectively, for that day. `close` and `adjusted_close` are the closing
price. The difference is that `adjClose` is adjusted for splits and
dividends, whereas `close` is adjusted only for splits. `volume` is the
stock's volume for that day.

Typically, this should give at least a month of data. Obviously, it gives less
for recent IPOs. Also, a known but unexplained bug causes it to only give two
days of data for some stocks.

# Exceptions
`stockquotes.StockDoesNotExistError` is raised when the stock does not (appear
to) exist.

`stockquotes.NetworkError` is raised when a connection to Yahoo! Finance
cannot be established.

# License
This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.

Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or
distribute this software, either in source code form or as a compiled
binary, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by any
means.

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