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#Python Friday #315: Access Stock Market Data With #yfinance
https://pythonfriday.dev/2026/01/315-access-stock-market-data-with-yfinance/
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Every once and a while, I see an #opensource community interaction that is just beautifully efficient, from someone reporting to a bug, to others confirming which environments they can reproduce it in, to someone filing a PR, to others testing and reviewing it, to a quick release that fixes an issue for everyone. Today was one of those days and it made glad.
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I had some fun today "playing" with Stock Market share price data APIs.
Why... Well I am on vacation and I had some spare time... I know, I should probably check the definition of holiday in a dictionary 😉
Anyway, I settled upon "yfinance' because it is free and "good enough ", despite some quirks.
I was able to get a lot of very useful information, although it was probably not "timely" enough for anything even beyond casual
My efforts are here:
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What's happening here? #yfinance kaputt?
>>> http://msft.info
{'regularMarketPrice': None, 'preMarketPrice': None, 'logo_url': ''}
Looking for:
div = ticker_yf.info['dividendYield'] -
So this evening a new app in my blog. In the future I will provide a gui (user interface) 🙂
https://finsteininvest.pythonanywhere.com/
"A program to load a list of tickers and check there price and dividend performance as well as check for risk (standard deviation)"
