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## Installation
To get started using the library, the pip packages `numpy`, `pandas` and `yfinance`
have to be installed. To do this, type in the following:
```commandline
pip3 install numpy pandas yfinance
```
### Legal Disclaimer
*** IMPORTANT LEGAL DISCLAIMER ***
Yahoo!, Y!Finance, and Yahoo! finance are registered trademarks of Yahoo, Inc.
yfinance 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.
[[see also]](https://pypi.org/project/yfinance/)
## Usage
### If used as a CLI:
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## License (Unlicense)
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This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.
Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or distribute this software, either in source code form or as a compiled binary, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by any means.