Now we move onto some of the important functions of yahoofinancials. We will begin by downloading the stock price of ‘Apple’ Code :Ĭoming down on a technical level, the process of obtaining a historical stock price is a bit longer than the case of yfinance but that is mostly due to the huge volume of data. Without any further delay, let us execute the following code. It has many potential uses and many people use it to download stock prices and also crypto prices. The module ‘yfinance’ is now a very popular library that is very python friendly and can be used as a patch to pandas_datareader or a standalone library in itself.
It was previously known as ‘fix_yahoo_finance’ but later it transformed into a module of its own but it is not an official one by Yahoo.
!pip install yahoofinancials First Method: How to use yfinance If you do not have these libraries, you can install them via pip.
We need to load the following libraries: import pandas as pdįrom yahoofinancials import YahooFinancials We will discuss that later and now we will begin by importing the required modules into our code. The other module we will talk about is yahoofinancials which requires extra effort but gives back a whole lot of extra information in return. In the first approach, we will consider the finance module in python and it is a very easy module to work with.