ranaroussi/yfinance
Download market data from Yahoo! Finance's API
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
Ranks #400 of 2,845 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 14%).
3 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 47 days ago, with 169 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a Pythonic interface to download financial and market data from Yahoo! Finance's public API.
- Enables easy access to comprehensive market data without requiring direct API management or authentication.
- Use for retrieving historical stock price data for quantitative analysis or backtesting trading strategies.
- Use for streaming live market data and quotes to build real-time financial dashboards or alert systems.
- Use for screening stocks by sector, industry, or custom queries to identify investment opportunities.
Should you depend on it?
License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.
License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
yfinance offers a Pythonic way to fetch financial & market data from Yahoo!Ⓡ finance.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
3.4K+66
Open issues
110-47
Compared with peers in API
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Oct 11, by 7-day star growth
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| vxcontrol/pentagi | 32.2K | +5.4K | 75 | 18 days ago |
| NdoleStudio/httpsms | 6.1K | +669 | 75 | 61 days ago |
| palemoky/chinese-poetry-api | 3.4K | +400 | 32 | 103 days ago |
| public-apis/public-apis | 488.0K | +0 | 75 | — |
| hasura/graphql-engine | 32.1K | +0 | 75 | 36 days ago |
| ranaroussi/yfinance | 25.5K | +0 | 62 | 47 days ago |
| Category median | 32.1K | +400 | 75 | — |
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