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://git.kj7rrv.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Do not install from PyPI; the PyPI package is no longer updated.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 dicts, 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.

In jurisdictions that recognize copyright laws, the author or authors of this software dedicate any and all copyright interest in the software to the public domain. We make this dedication for the benefit of the public at large and to the detriment of our heirs and successors. We intend this dedication to be an overt act of relinquishment in perpetuity of all present and future rights to this software under copyright law.

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