Yahoo Finance Scraper | Real-Time Stock Market API
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from $1.00 / 1,000 quote fetcheds
Yahoo Finance Scraper | Real-Time Stock Market API
Scrape real-time stock prices, pre-market data, and trading volumes directly from Yahoo Finance for your financial models and trading algorithms.
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Yahoo Finance Stock Quote Scraper
Scrape real-time stock quotes and financial data from Yahoo Finance to power dashboards, AI agents, and alerting systems. Feed it a list of ticker symbols and get back live market prices, volume, market cap, and 52-week range โ all from the public Yahoo Finance API in a single fast request. Schedule it on Apify to build a continuously updated market data pipeline.
Features
- Bulk ticker lookup โ fetch quotes for hundreds of stock symbols in a single run
- Real-time prices โ returns current market price, pre/post-market data, and daily change percentage
- Market fundamentals โ includes market cap, trading volume, and 52-week high/low
- Multi-asset support โ works with stocks, ETFs, indices, and forex pairs available on Yahoo Finance
- No API key required โ queries the public Yahoo Finance API endpoint directly
- Batch optimization โ processes up to 100 tickers per API call for maximum speed
- Pay-per-result pricing โ only pay for quotes returned, with charge-limit safety built in
Input
| Field | Type | Required | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
tickers | array | Yes | โ | List of stock ticker symbols to look up (e.g. AAPL, TSLA, SPY, BTC-USD) |
timeoutSeconds | integer | No | 15 | API request timeout in seconds (1-120) |
Input Example
{"tickers":["AAPL","TSLA","MSFT","SPY"],"timeoutSeconds":15}
Output
Each dataset item represents one stock quote. Key fields:
symbol(string) โ ticker symbolshortName(string) โ company or instrument nameregularMarketPrice(number) โ current market priceregularMarketChangePercent(number) โ daily price change in percentregularMarketVolume(number) โ trading volumemarketCap(number) โ market capitalizationfiftyTwoWeekHigh(number) โ 52-week high pricefiftyTwoWeekLow(number) โ 52-week low pricecurrency(string) โ price currency (e.g.USD)
Output Example
{"symbol":"AAPL","shortName":"Apple Inc.","regularMarketPrice":237.45,"regularMarketChangePercent":1.23,"regularMarketVolume":54123000,"marketCap":3620000000000,"fiftyTwoWeekHigh":243.20,"fiftyTwoWeekLow":164.08,"currency":"USD"}
Pricing
| Event | Cost |
|---|---|
| Quote Fetched | Pay-per-event (see actor pricing page) |
Use Cases
- Portfolio dashboards โ build real-time stock monitoring dashboards with scheduled Apify runs
- Trading alerts โ trigger notifications when prices cross thresholds by combining with webhooks
- Financial research โ collect market data snapshots for backtesting or analysis
- AI agent tools โ supply live market context to LLM agents and financial chatbots
- Spreadsheet automation โ export daily quotes to Google Sheets or Excel via Apify integrations
- Multi-asset tracking โ monitor stocks, ETFs, crypto pairs, and indices from a single actor
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Notes
- Yahoo Finance may occasionally block requests or change their API structure. If you encounter errors, try reducing the batch size or spacing runs further apart.
- Pre-market and post-market prices are included when available but may show
nulloutside trading hours.
