CODEWITHSUNDEEP
pythonyahoo-api
maxfactor
maxfactor

Reputation: 11

TypeError: string indices must be integers when trying to get stock info from Yahoo Finance

I'm trying to retrieve Sector and Industry data for a list of stocks from Yahoo Finance

My code worked the first time I ran it, but now I get a long response that ends in "TypeError: string indices must be integers"

I've seen several posts that recommend using an override for pandas datareader to fix this a similar "string indices must be integers" but I'm not using pandas datareader as I'm looking to retrieve sector and industry from the profile of each ticker.

My code looks like this

import yfinance as yf

companies = ['AAPL','AMZN','GOOG','META','NFLX','TSLA']

i=0
while i<len(companies):
    stock=yf.Ticker(companies[i])
    print(stock.info['sector'])
    print(stock.info['industry'])

Response is as follows:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Python_Programs/stack_overflow_code.py", line 8, in <module>
    print(stock.info['sector'])
  File "C:\PerfLogs\Python Software\Python 3_10_7\lib\site-packages\yfinance\ticker.py", line 138, in info
    return self.get_info()
  File "C:\PerfLogs\Python Software\Python 3_10_7\lib\site-packages\yfinance\base.py", line 894, in get_info
    data = self._quote.info
  File "C:\PerfLogs\Python Software\Python 3_10_7\lib\site-packages\yfinance\scrapers\quote.py", line 27, in info
    self._scrape(self.proxy)
  File "C:\PerfLogs\Python Software\Python 3_10_7\lib\site-packages\yfinance\scrapers\quote.py", line 58, in _scrape
    quote_summary_store = json_data['QuoteSummaryStore']
TypeError: string indices must be integers

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1381

Answers (2)

Kostadin
Kostadin

Reputation: 11

Try updating the yfinance package through pip using:

pip3 install --upgrade yfinance

It worked for me.

Upvotes: 1

enslaved_programmer
enslaved_programmer

Reputation: 276

Yahoo also recently changed the layout for the .info property, so that will fail to be fetched.

See this Github Issue

Here is also an alternative way to use the library

import yfinance as yf

companies = ['AAPL','AMZN','GOOG','META','NFLX','TSLA']

tickers = yf.Tickers(' '.join(companies))

for ticker in companies:
    print(tickers.tickers)
    print(tickers.tickers[ticker].info)
    print(tickers.tickers[ticker].sector)
    print(tickers.tickers[ticker].industry)

Upvotes: 0

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