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What’s the best way to scrape financial data from Yahoo Finance?
Yahoo Finance has a public API that provides stock prices, historical data, and financial metrics, making it easier than scraping the site itself.
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4 Replies
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I track stock prices in high-demand sectors, like tech or energy, and save data over time to analyze market trends without overloading Yahoo’s servers.
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- Setting up a schedule to scrape key financial metrics, such as PE ratio or dividend yield, helps monitor stock performance regularly.
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Yahoo Finance’s JSON structure in network requests allows for direct access to detailed data, such as market cap or volume, without parsing HTML.
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- I limit scraping to only essential data fields like closing prices or volume, reducing the number of requests and minimizing risk of detection.
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