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yahoofinancer

Obtain historical and near real time data related to stocks, index and currencies from the Yahoo Finance API.

Installation

You can install the development version of yahoofinancer from GitHub with: 

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("rsquaredacademy/yahoofinancer")

Quick Start

Ticker

To retrieve data from Yahoo Finance for a single stock, create an instance of the Ticker class by passing the company’s ticker symbol as an argument: 

aapl <- Ticker$new('aapl')

# get historical market data
aapl$get_history(start = '2023-08-01', interval = '1d')
#>                  date    volume   high    low   open  close adj_close
#> 1 2023-08-01 13:30:00  35175100 196.73 195.28 196.24 195.61    195.61
#> 2 2023-08-02 13:30:00  50389300 195.18 191.85 195.04 192.58    192.58
#> 3 2023-08-03 13:30:00  61235200 192.37 190.69 191.57 191.17    191.17
#> 4 2023-08-04 13:30:00 115799700 187.38 181.92 185.52 181.99    181.99
#> 5 2023-08-07 13:50:28  19412704 183.13 178.80 182.13 178.93    178.93

Index

To retrieve data from Yahoo Finance for an index, create an instance of the Index class by passing the index symbol as an argument: 

nifty_50 <- Index$new('^NSEI')

# get historical data
nifty_50$get_history(start = '2023-08-01', interval = '1d')
#>                  date volume     high      low     open    close adj_close
#> 1 2023-08-01 03:45:00 298000 19795.60 19704.60 19784.00 19733.55  19733.55
#> 2 2023-08-02 03:45:00 290700 19678.25 19423.55 19655.40 19526.55  19526.55
#> 3 2023-08-03 03:45:00 315700 19537.65 19296.45 19463.75 19381.65  19381.65
#> 4 2023-08-04 03:45:00 280800 19538.85 19436.45 19462.80 19517.00  19517.00
#> 5 2023-08-07 10:01:48      0 19620.45 19524.80 19576.85 19597.30  19597.30

Currency 

currency_converter('GBP', 'USD', '2023-08-01', '2023-08-04')
#>                  date     high      low     open    close volume adj_close
#> 1 2023-07-31 23:00:00 1.283862 1.274161 1.283203 1.283401      0  1.283401
#> 2 2023-08-01 23:00:00 1.279738 1.268183 1.279116 1.279574      0  1.279574
#> 3 2023-08-02 23:00:00 1.272848 1.262594 1.271763 1.272038      0  1.272038
#> 4 2023-08-03 23:00:00 1.278266 1.269164 1.271617 1.271634      0  1.271634

Yahoo!, Y!Finance, and Yahoo! finance are registered trademarks of Yahoo, Inc.

yahoofinancer is not affiliated, endorsed, or vetted by Yahoo, Inc. It’s an open-source tool that uses Yahoo’s publicly available APIs, and is intended for research and educational purposes.

You should refer to Yahoo!’s terms of use (here, here, and here) for details on your rights to use the actual data downloaded. Remember - the Yahoo! finance API is intended for personal use only.

Code of Conduct

Please note that the yahoofinancer project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.