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Download Historical Prices

Source: R/functional_api.R
yf_download_prices.Rd

Fetches historical OHLCV price data for one or more tickers using the Yahoo Finance chart API. Results are combined into a single long-format tibble suitable for dplyr pipelines.

**Intraday lookback limits** (imposed by Yahoo Finance):

  • "1m": max 7 days

  • "5m", "15m", "30m": max 60 days

  • "1h": max 730 days

Usage

yf_download_prices(
  tickers,
  start = NULL,
  end = NULL,
  interval = "1d",
  period = NULL
)

Arguments

tickers

Character vector of one or more stock symbols (e.g., c("AAPL", "MSFT")).

start

Date or character string in "YYYY-MM-DD" format representing the start date. When provided, period is ignored.

end

Date or character string in "YYYY-MM-DD" format representing the end date. Defaults to today if start is set but end is NULL.

interval

Time between data points. Valid values: "1m", "2m", "5m", "15m", "30m", "60m", "90m", "1h", "1d", "5d", "1wk", "1mo", "3mo". Defaults to "1d".

period

Relative time period. Valid values: "1d", "5d", "1mo", "3mo", "6mo", "1y", "2y", "5y", "10y", "ytd", "max". Defaults to "1y" when both start and period are NULL.

Value

A tibble with 8 columns: symbol, date, open, high, low, close, adj_close, volume. Returns an empty tibble if all tickers fail.

See also

Other historical data: Index-class, Ticker-class, Tickers, yf_get_index_quotes()

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Single ticker with date range
yf_download_prices("AAPL", start = "2023-01-01", end = "2023-01-10")

# Multiple tickers with relative period
yf_download_prices(c("AAPL", "MSFT"), period = "6mo", interval = "1mo")
} # }