Yahoo Finance Stock Options
by pintostudio
Automatically scrape and structure stock options data from Yahoo Finance. Perfect for feeding financial dashboards, research, and analysis with clean, ready-to-use data.
Opens on Apify.com
About Yahoo Finance Stock Options
Need to pull stock options data from Yahoo Finance for your project? I've been there. Manually checking chains or trying to cobble together a script is a pain. This actor handles all that heavy lifting for you. It connects directly to Yahoo Finance and pulls clean, structured data on options contracts—think strike prices, expiration dates, bid/ask spreads, and volumes. I use it to feed data into my own analysis spreadsheets and backtesting models without any fuss. It's perfect if you're building a financial dashboard, conducting quantitative research, or just need a reliable, automated way to track options activity. You configure your ticker symbol and the expiration date you're interested in, run it, and get the data delivered in a format like JSON or CSV that's ready to work with. It saves hours of manual work and avoids the hassle of dealing with rate limits or page structure changes yourself. For developers and analysts looking to integrate Yahoo Finance options data into their workflows, this is a straightforward solution that just works.
What does this actor do?
Yahoo Finance Stock Options is a web scraping and automation tool available on the Apify platform. It's designed to help you extract data and automate tasks efficiently in the cloud.
Key Features
- Cloud-based execution - no local setup required
- Scalable infrastructure for large-scale operations
- API access for integration with your applications
- Built-in proxy rotation and anti-blocking measures
- Scheduled runs and webhooks for automation
How to Use
- Click "Try This Actor" to open it on Apify
- Create a free Apify account if you don't have one
- Configure the input parameters as needed
- Run the actor and download your results
Documentation
Yahoo Finance Stock Options Actor
This Apify actor provides a simple API to fetch key financial data for stocks from Yahoo Finance. It returns structured data like price, market changes, filings, and other metrics for a given stock ticker.
Key Features
The actor retrieves the following data for a specified stock ticker:
* Ticker Information: Core identifying data.
* Price Tracking: The current trading price.
* Description & Market Change: Company description and real-time price change.
* Financial Filings: List of recent filings (e.g., Form 10-K, 8-K).
* Earnings Date: The upcoming earnings announcement date.
* Market Capitalization: The company's market cap.
* Bid Data: Current bid price and bid size.
How to Use
Provide a stock ticker symbol as the ticker input parameter to the actor. It will return the data in JSON and table formats.
Example API Call:
curl -X GET "https://apify.com/pintostudio/yahoo-finance?ticker=TSLA&fpr=python_automation"
Input/Output
Input:
* ticker (string, required): The stock symbol (e.g., TSLA, AAPL).
Output (Example JSON):
{
"ticker": "TSLA",
"price": 123.45,
"description": "Tesla, Inc.",
"marketChange": "+2.34%",
"filings": ["Form 10-K", "Form 8-K"],
"earningDate": "2024-01-15",
"marketCap": "$1.5 trillion",
"bid": 123.40,
"bidSize": 100
}
Common Use Cases
Market Research
Gather competitive intelligence and market data
Lead Generation
Extract contact information for sales outreach
Price Monitoring
Track competitor pricing and product changes
Content Aggregation
Collect and organize content from multiple sources
Ready to Get Started?
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- Developer
- pintostudio
- Pricing
- Paid
- Total Runs
- 783
- Active Users
- 14
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