# oxylabs/how-to-scrape-google-finance

Use Web Scraper API to extract data from Google Finance, including stock titles, pricing, and price changes in percentages.

Repository: https://github.com/oxylabs/how-to-scrape-google-finance
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/how-to-scrape-google-finance
Homepage: https://oxylabs.io/products/scraper-api/web
Language: Python
License Family: other
Topics: finance-api, financial-data-extraction, google-finance, google-finance-api, google-scraper, scrape-google, stock-scraper, stocks-api, stocks-data, stocks-prices, web-scraping, google-finance-scraper
Last push: 2025-09-23T08:49:12+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 42/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 43, release rhythm 35, longevity 50
- inputs: {"age_days": 707, "days_push": 344, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1346, forks 2 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:27.506748+00:00)

## What it is
A Python tutorial repository from Oxylabs demonstrating how to scrape Google Finance data (stock titles, prices, and percentage price changes) using the Oxylabs Web Scraper API with requests and Beautiful Soup. It provides step-by-step code samples that fetch pages via the API and save parsed stock data as JSON.

## Use cases
- scrape stock prices from google finance
- extract stock title and price change percentage with python
- tutorial for scraping google finance with web scraper api
- save google finance data to
- learn web scraping of financial websites
- get stock data using oxylabs scraper api

## When to choose
- you want a guided, copy-paste example of scraping Google Finance via Oxylabs' Web Scraper API
- you already have or plan to get an Oxylabs subscription or free trial
- you need a simple Python reference for parsing stock titles, prices, and percentage changes

## When to avoid
- you need a free, self-contained scraper without a paid third-party API dependency
- you need a production-grade library or maintained API client rather than a tutorial
- you want real-time market data with licensing guarantees instead of scraped public pages

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: active
- function: web-scraping, http-client, parser
- domain: crawlers, tutorials, developer-tools
- platform: python, cross-platform
- tags: google-finance, stock-data, tutorial, beautifulsoup, oxylabs-api, financial-data-extraction, finance

## Member repositories
- oxylabs/how-to-scrape-google-finance (main) score 42

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:27.506748+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:42:42.469275+00:00, confidence not recorded.
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- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.