yahoo-finance

Overview

Fetch comprehensive stock data from Yahoo Finance using the yahoo-finance2 library.

Key Features

• Get real-time price, change, and basic data
• Get detailed modules like earnings, financial data, and profiles
• Get technical and fundamental insights (valuation, outlook)
• Search for symbols

How It Works

The tool is available as yf. It outputs JSON, which can be piped to jq for filtering.

Use Cases

• Quick price check
• Next earnings date
• Analyst recommendations
• Company profile
• Historical OHLCV
• Search for symbols
• Trending symbols (US)
• Insights (valuation, outlook)

Examples

• Quick price check: yf quote NVDA | jq '{symbol: .symbol, price: .regularMarketPrice, changePct: .regularMarketChangePercent}'
• Next earnings date: `yf quoteSummary TSLA ’{