Overview
yfinance is a Python library that allows users to download market data from Yahoo! Finance's API. It provides a Pythonic interface for fetching financial data, including stock prices, historical data, options data, and company information. The library uses Yahoo's publicly available APIs and is intended for research and educational purposes. It supports fetching data for single or multiple tickers, downloading market data, accessing market information, streaming live data via WebSockets, searching quotes and news, and retrieving sector and industry information. yfinance is distributed under the Apache Software License and relies on community contributions for bug fixes and code improvements. The library integrates well with pandas for data analysis.