Luciano Cohan
- 1 minute to read

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.

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