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brain_dead_cow
brain_dead_cow

Reputation: 83

How to retrieve live price from yahoo_finance stock?

I am building an application and i want to retrieve the latest quoted price from yahoo-finance. I am trying to scrape the path using BeautifulSoup, however all I get when I print is an empty list. Any suggestions?

Example HTML:

<span class="Trsdu(0.3s) Fw(b) Fz(36px) Mb(-4px) D(ib)" data-reactid="35"><!-- react-text: 36 -->169.37<!-- /react-text --></span>

My code:

 import requests
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 a = requests.get('https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL/history?p=AAPL')
 soup = BeautifulSoup(a.content, 'lxml')
 search = soup.find_all('span', {'class':'Trsdu(0.3s) Fw(b) Fz(36px) Mb(-4px) 
 D(ib)'})
 print(search)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 7805

Answers (3)

atreadw
atreadw

Reputation: 299

You can use the yahoo_fin package (see http://theautomatic.net/yahoo_fin-documentation/). Here's a couple examples:

# load the stock_info module from yahoo_fin
from yahoo_fin import stock_info as si

# get Apple's live quote price
si.get_live_price("AAPL")

# or Amazon's
si.get_live_price("AMZN")

Just replace "AAPL" or "AMZN" with whatever ticker you need.

Upvotes: 0

Mr. Cat
Mr. Cat

Reputation: 55

found a python api:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/yahoo-finance

>>> from yahoo_finance import Share   
>>> yahoo = Share('YHOO')  
>>> print yahoo.get_open()  
'36.60'  
>>> print yahoo.get_price()  
'36.84'  
>>> print yahoo.get_trade_datetime()  
'2014-02-05 20:50:00 UTC+0000'

at a guess, this will be easier to use and break less

Upvotes: 1

SIM
SIM

Reputation: 22440

You can use selenium in combination with BeautifulSoup to get the content you are after. Something like below:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get('https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL/history?p=AAPL')
soup = BeautifulSoup(driver.page_source,"lxml")
item = soup.find(id="quote-market-notice").find_parent().find("span").text
print(item)
driver.quit()

Output:

169.37

Upvotes: 1

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