A python library that queries a series of freely available finance APIs to track, store information, and run analytics against this data. Currently supports:
- finance.yahoo.com (yql)
The yahoo finance API is based off the data available from Yahoo's datatables. It abstracts the YQL into an easy-to-use python interface
from openfinance.yahoo import api
api.get_quotes(['yhoo'])Show query is designed to help you understand the parameters required for a query
api.show_query('quotes')- get_quotes - pass in a list of ticker symbols and get quote information
- get_options - pass in a ticker symbol and expiration to see available options
- get_sectors - retrieve a list of available sectors (industries)
- get_industry - pass in an industry id and retrieve a list of symbols that belong in that industry
- refactored api to use requests, be more efficient
- added get_sectors, get_industry, get_options