SimpleStockData

SimpleStockData is a simple library providing an API to access basic stock prices. You just have to specify a start and an end date, or a specific period, and - if needed - a currency to convert all stock prices to.

1. Installation

1.1 Requirements

Python >= 2.7, 3.4+
Pandas >= 1.3.0
Numpy >= 1.16.5
requests >= 2.31
lxml >= 4.9.1
appdirs >= 1.4.4
pytz >=2022.5
frozendict >= 2.3.4
beautifulsoup4 >= 4.11.1
html5lib >= 1.1
peewee >= 3.16.2

Requirements from yfinance [see also]

1.2 Installing these

To get started using the library, the pip packages named in 1.1 have to be installed. To do this, type in the following:

pip3 install numpy pandas yfinance requests lxml

1.3 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]

2. Usage

2.1 If used as a CLI:

TODO;

2.2 If used as a Module in Python (via import):

TODO;

3. Thanks to

• yfinance - the library used in the background to get stock prices and exchange rates from Yahoo Finance.

• Pandas - the powerful Python data analysis toolkit

• Numpy - used in combination with pandas for precise calculations

4. License (Unlicense)

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.

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