gatesh / financemarketdatagrabber

Use Yahoo Finance or Google's 'hidden' Finance APIs to retrieve current stock and forex data as well as historic quotes

#Finance API Library

Python library to access current stock/forex quotes from Yahoo and Google Finance 'APIs'. Historic data can also be retrieved.

Multiple stock quotes and multiple symbols can be retrieved in a single call, thereby reducing latency and bandwidth usage.

Usage - Yahoo Finance Live Quotes (delayed by 15 minutes by Yahoo)

To retrieve live stock data using the Yahoo Finance API, the following will be required.

import FinanceDataLib.YahooFinance.YahooApi as YahooApi
from FinanceDataLib.YahooFinance.YahooApi_Symbols import *

financeApi = YahooApi.yahooFinance()

To retrieve stock data, provide a list of stocks of interest as well as a list symbols for each stock.

stockList = ('MSFT', 'AAPL', 'BARC.L')
symbolList = (SymbolInfo.Symbol, SymbolInfo.StockExchange, SymbolInfo.Name, \
    Pricing.Ask, Pricing.Bid, Pricing.LastTradeWithTime)
    
financeApi.GetData(stockList, symbolList)

This will return the following response:

"MSFT","NMS","Microsoft Corporation",58.74,58.65,"4:00pm - <b>58.71</b>"
"AAPL","NMS","Apple Inc.",108.85,108.71,"4:00pm - <b>108.84</b>"
"BARC.L","LSE","BARCLAYS PLC ORD 25P",189.00,179.50,"5:05pm - <b>181.35</b>"

More examples can be found in the example.py file.

Pending

More information about how to use the Google Finance API and the historical data retriever will be provided soon.

As of 05/11/2016, the Google Finance API is still working.