How can I download Data from Yahoo Finance?

Yahoo Finance has information on hundreds of thousands of financial assets, stocks, bonds, ETFs, Indices, which are now easily accessible using Alphacast pipelines.

Creating a dataset or pipeline by importing from Yahoo finance is as simple as

1 Create a new pipeline

2 Choose as data source "Yahoo Finance"

3 Choose as many tickers as you want, separated by commas: Example "NQ=F, AAPL, MSFT" and the period you need

4 Press "Save" to save the changes in the Step

5 Ready! You can now publish the dataset that will include open, close, high, low, volume, dividends, and stock split data.

image.png

Luciano Cohan

Written by

Luciano Cohan

Co-Fundador de Alphacast. Ex Subsecretario de Programación Macroeconómica. Data Science. Creando una plataforma para el trabajo colaborativo en economías

Alphacast

Part of

Alphacast

Related insights

  • Read more...

    How to convert a series to the official USD or Blue Chip Swap?

    The pipeline engine "Apply Transform" step incorporates a new transformation that allows changing the source unit: Convert to dollar official or to Blue Chip Swap (for Argentina only).

    The pipeline is separated into Two steps

    1. Select ("Fetch") the dataset and its columns
    2. "Apply transform"
  • Read more...

    How is a Time Series seasonally adjusted?

    Removing seasonality from time series is always complicated and laborious. The standard deseasonalization method is X-13ARIMA-SEATS or some other version of the methodologies maintained by the United States Census Bureau. Denationalizing usually includes using some application such as Eviews, Demetra or Stata or Python, combining it with the files that are downloaded

  • Read more...

    How to merge the content of two datasets?

    Surely in your usual work with data, you needed to join several data sources and if your calculation tool is Excel you may solve it with some combination of the VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, and/or MATCH formulas. Excel is a great solution in many cases, but it can be difficult in some scenarios.

  • Read more...

    How to calculate a monthly end-of-period series?

    Pipelines are an easy way to apply transformations to datasets that update automatically every time data is updated.

    Suppose we have a daily data series for which we need only the last value of each month. It is possible to do that in Excel. For example, an auxiliary column is added that