Usage

The current version of stockex provides a simple Python 3+ class, YahooData, which provides easy wrapping for Yahoo! Finance API.

Importing YahooData:

from stockex import stockwrapper as sw

Creating a wrapper object:

data = sw.YahooData()

Basic Usage

Print Current data of a Stock

print(data.get_current(['GOOG']))

Print historical data of a Stock

print(data.get_historical("GOOG"))

Trivial formatting

print("Google stock: Date and Price")
for item in data.get_historical("GOOG"):
    print(item['Date'] + '\t' + item['Close'])

Other methods:

Do a custom YQL query to Yahoo! Finance YQL API:

data.enquire('select * from yahoo.finance.quotes where symbol in ("GOOG", "C")')

Get news feed of a Company

data.get_news_feed("GOOG")

Get options data

data.get_options_info("GOOG")

Get industry ids

data.get_industry_ids()

Get industry index from a given id

data.get_industry_index('914')