# yahoo-finance/yahoo-finance

Python module to get stock data from Yahoo! Finance

Repository: https://github.com/yahoo-finance/yahoo-finance
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/yahoo-finance
Language: Python
License Family: other
Topics: python, yahoo-finance-api, finance
Last push: 2023-12-25T18:19:29+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4506, "days_push": 982, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1445, forks 362 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:45.096096+00:00)

## What it is
A Python module for fetching stock quotes and historical price data from Yahoo! Finance's public API. It provides a simple Share class for retrieving open, close, high, low, and volume data.

## Use cases
- get stock prices in python
- download historical stock data from yahoo finance
- fetch current share price for a ticker symbol
- python library for stock market data
- get OHLCV data for backtesting

## When to choose
- you need a minimal, simple API for Yahoo Finance quotes in Python 2-era code
- you want quick access to historical OHLC data for research or education

## When to avoid
- you need a maintained library - this repo is abandoned and Yahoo's API has changed since 2017
- you need Python 3 support or production reliability
- you need real-time or licensed market data

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: http-client, sdk, data-science
- domain: fintech, data-science, apis
- platform: python, cross-platform
- tags: yahoo-finance, stock-data, market-data, financial-data, unmaintained

## Member repositories
- yahoo-finance/yahoo-finance (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:45.096096+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 2026-08-30T04:36:15.661060+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/yahoo-finance/yahoo-finance (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:45.096096+00:00, sha b530295778af)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.