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Yahoo Finance Scraper — Stocks, ETFs & Crypto | No API Key | from $1.50/1K

For quant analysts, portfolio trackers, and AI agents that need structured stock and crypto price data — without a $599/year Bloomberg terminal or a $25/month Yahoo Finance API subscription.

No API key required. No Yahoo Finance account. $1.50/1,000 quote snapshots · $0.50/1,000 OHLCV bars (Pay Per Event). Every record includes parse_confidence (0.0–1.0) and warnings. Symbols that fail to resolve are not charged.

Scrape live stock quotes and historical OHLCV price data from Yahoo Finance — stocks, ETFs, cryptocurrencies, market indices, and forex pairs, all in one actor. No API key, no authentication, no proxy required. Two modes cover the full financial data workflow: real-time snapshots and bar-level history for any date range. Pay per result.

Whether you need the current price of AAPL, 10 years of daily BTC-USD closes, or a 1-minute intraday chart for SPY, this actor delivers clean structured records at $1.50 per 1,000 results.

What data you get from Yahoo Finance

Quote mode — real-time price snapshot

One record per symbol with:

• regular_price, prev_close, open, day_high, day_low
• volume, market_cap, price_change_pct
• fifty_two_week_high, fifty_two_week_low
• trailing_pe, forward_pe, dividend_yield
• market_state — REGULAR / PRE / POST / CLOSED
• quote_type — EQUITY / CRYPTOCURRENCY / INDEX / ETF
• name, symbol, currency, exchange
• timestamp — ISO 8601 UTC quote time

History mode — OHLCV bars

One record per bar with:

• date (YYYY-MM-DD for daily bars; ISO timestamp for intraday)
• open, high, low, close, adj_close (split/dividend adjusted), volume
• symbol, currency, mode

All records include parse_confidence (0.0–1.0) and warnings.

Supported symbol types

How to use

Get live quotes for multiple symbols

{
"mode":"quote",
"symbols":["AAPL","MSFT","GOOGL","BTC-USD","^GSPC"]
}

Get 1-year daily OHLCV history

{
"mode":"history",
"symbols":["AAPL","TSLA"],
"range":"1y",
"interval":"1d"
}

Get max historical daily closes for crypto

{
"mode":"history",
"symbols":["BTC-USD","ETH-USD"],
"range":"max",
"interval":"1d"
}

Intraday 5-minute bars (last 60 days)

{
"mode":"history",
"symbols":["SPY","QQQ"],
"range":"60d",
"interval":"5m"
}

Input parameters

Interval / range compatibility

Output schema

Why this beats competitors

Yahoo Finance's official API (YF Data API) costs $25–$599/month. This actor:

• Uses Yahoo Finance's public endpoints — no API key, no registration
• Accesses Yahoo Finance's public endpoints reliably from Apify cloud
• Handles the crumb/cookie auth handshake automatically for quote mode — zero manual steps
• Returns parse_confidence on every record — you know what to trust
• Broad symbol support — stocks, ETFs, crypto, indices, forex, international tickers
• PPE pricing — $1.50/1,000 quote records, $0.50/1,000 history bars, nothing for symbols that fail

Use with AI agents (MCP)

This actor is callable as a tool by AI agents (Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, n8n, LangGraph, CrewAI, or any MCP-compatible client) via Apify's hosted Model Context Protocol server. An agent uses it to look up live stock prices, historical OHLCV data, ETF quotes, or crypto prices mid-conversation — e.g. "what is AAPL's current price?", "show me the last year of daily closes for BTC-USD".

Point your MCP client at this tool:

{
"mcpServers":{
"apify":{
"command":"npx",
"args":[
"mcp-remote",
"https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=bovi/yahoo-finance-scraper",
"--header",
"Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>"
]
}
}
}

Minimal input an agent can send:

{"mode":"quote","symbols":["AAPL","BTC-USD","^GSPC"]}

Notes on edge cases

• Index symbols (^GSPC, ^DJI) often have null volume — this is a Yahoo Finance limitation.
• Crypto (BTC-USD) may have null market_cap in quote mode depending on market hours.
• Intraday intervals (1m–90m) have limited history — use 1d for long-range data.
• Pre/post market bars available in history mode via the includePrePost flag.

FAQ

Does it need a Yahoo Finance account or API key? No. Both the quote and history endpoints are public. Quote mode performs an automated crumb/cookie handshake — no manual steps required.

Can it fetch multiple symbols at once? Yes. Quote mode supports up to 100 symbols per run. History mode fetches one symbol at a time (per Yahoo's endpoint design) and batches automatically.

Does it work for international stocks? Yes. Append the exchange suffix — e.g. ASML.AS (Amsterdam), 7203.T (Tokyo). Coverage depends on Yahoo Finance's data licensing.

What is adj_close? The adjusted close price, corrected for stock splits and dividend payments. Use this for accurate long-term return calculations.

Pricing example

Pay per result (PPE). Charged per record pushed. Symbols that fail to resolve are not charged.

Integrations

Built for quant analysts and portfolio trackers feeding stock, ETF, and crypto price data into models without a paid data subscription — the JSON/dataset output drops into the tools you already run, no glue code:

• n8n / Make / Zapier — trigger a run or pipe every new dataset item into 500+ apps (Google Sheets, Airtable, Slack, HubSpot, your database) with no code: n8n, Make, Zapier.
• Webhooks — fire your own endpoint the moment a run finishes, to push results straight into your pipeline (docs).
• MCP server — expose this actor as a tool to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client so an AI agent can pull this data mid-conversation (guide).
• API & SDKs — fetch the dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel through the Apify REST API or the Python / JS SDKs.

See all Apify integrations.

Legal

Not affiliated with Yahoo Finance or Yahoo Inc. This actor uses publicly accessible endpoints. Use responsibly.

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