yfinance

In summary, yfinance provides a Pythonic interface for fetching financial data from Yahoo! Finance's API while emphasizing its educational and research purposes.

Headlines

  • yfinance Integrates Seamlessly with Python: Utilizes Yahoo!'s public API to fetch market data for analysis. This open-source tool is intended for personal, educational use.
  • New Documentation is Live!: Users can access comprehensive guides at ranaroussi.github.io/yfinance. It offers tips, updates, and installation guidance to enhance user experience.
  • Caution on Data Usage: Adheres to Yahoo!'s terms of service for API usage. Ensure compliance to use and distribute data responsibly.

Things

  • People: Ran Aroussi (Author)
  • Places: Yahoo! Finance, PyPI, GitHub
  • Numbers: Version 1.7.0, Released Aug 26, 2026
  • Things: Tickers, WebSocket
  • Concepts: Open-source, License (Apache Software License)

yfinance 1.7.0

Download market data from Yahoo! Finance API

pip install yfinance

Download market data from Yahoo! Finance's API

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yfinance offers a Pythonic way to fetch financial & market data from Yahoo!Ⓡ finance.

Important

Yahoo!, Y!Finance, and Yahoo! finance are registered trademarks of Yahoo, Inc.

yfinance is not affiliated, endorsed, or vetted by Yahoo, Inc. It's an open-source tool that uses Yahoo's publicly available APIs, and is intended for research and educational purposes.

You should refer to Yahoo!'s terms of use (here, here, and here) **for details on your rights to use the actual data downloaded.

Remember - the Yahoo! finance API is intended for personal use only.**

Tip

THE NEW DOCUMENTATION WEBSITE IS NOW LIVE! 🤘

Visit ranaroussi.github.io/yfinance

Main components

  • Ticker: single ticker data
  • Tickers: multiple tickers' data
  • download: download market data for multiple tickers
  • Market: get information about a market
  • WebSocket and AsyncWebSocket: live streaming data
  • Search: quotes and news from search
  • Sector and Industry: sector and industry information
  • EquityQuery and Screener: build query to screen market

Installation

Install yfinance from PYPI using pip:

$ pip install yfinance

To install without curl_cffi for requests fallback, see Advanced ▸ Installation.

yfinance relies on the community to investigate bugs and contribute code. Here's how you can help.

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yfinance is distributed under the Apache Software License. See the LICENSE.txt file in the release for details.

AGAIN - yfinance is not affiliated, endorsed, or vetted by Yahoo, Inc. It's an open-source tool that uses Yahoo's publicly available APIs, and is intended for research and educational purposes. You should refer to Yahoo!'s terms of use (here, here, and here) for details on your rights to use the actual data downloaded.

P.S.

Please drop me a note with any feedback you have.

Ran Aroussi

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