Export public Yahoo Finance quote metadata and historical OHLCV price rows for stocks, ETFs, indices, crypto, forex, and funds.
Use this actor when you need a repeatable CSV, JSON, Excel, or API export of market data for spreadsheets, dashboards, backtests, research notebooks, or AI-agent workflows.
At a glance
- Input: Yahoo Finance symbols such as
AAPL,MSFT,SPY,BTC-USD,EURUSD=X, or^GSPC. - Output: Quote metadata plus historical open, high, low, close, volume, date, exchange, currency, timezone, and source URL.
- Time controls: Choose Yahoo Finance chart
rangeandinterval. - Best for: Stock data exports, OHLCV datasets, market dashboards, and Yahoo Finance API alternative workflows.
- No login required: Uses public Yahoo Finance data.
What can it do?
- Export Yahoo Finance stock data: Save historical OHLCV rows for public symbols.
- Collect quote metadata: Add exchange, currency, previous close, regular market price, and timezone context.
- Build chart datasets: Choose ranges and intervals for daily, weekly, monthly, and intraday-style rows when available.
- Handle mixed asset classes: Use stocks, ETFs, indices, crypto pairs, forex pairs, and funds in one run.
- Use as a Yahoo Finance API alternative: Run from the Apify UI, API, schedules, webhooks, or the official Apify MCP server.
Common workflows
- Investment research: Export OHLCV rows for watchlists and compare price movement over time.
- Dashboard feeds: Send fresh rows to Google Sheets, BigQuery, a database, or a BI tool.
- Backtest prep: Collect consistent symbol/date/open/high/low/close/volume rows.
- Market monitoring: Schedule daily runs for a set of symbols and track latest saved rows.
- AI-agent analysis: Let an agent fetch recent prices before summarizing a symbol or watchlist.
Input example
{
"symbols": ["AAPL", "MSFT", "SPY", "BTC-USD"],
"range": "1mo",
"interval": "1d",
"includeRawTimestamps": true,
"maxConcurrency": 3
}
Output example
{
"symbol": "AAPL",
"exchangeName": "NMS",
"currency": "USD",
"regularMarketPrice": 212.44,
"previousClose": 211.18,
"chartPreviousClose": 210.79,
"timezone": "America/New_York",
"range": "1mo",
"interval": "1d",
"timestamp": 1783036800,
"date": "2026-07-02T13:30:00.000Z",
"open": 211.52,
"high": 214.12,
"low": 210.88,
"close": 212.44,
"volume": 54210000,
"sourceUrl": "https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL",
"scrapedAt": "2026-07-03T10:00:00.000Z"
}
Tips for best results
- Use Yahoo Finance's exact symbol format, including suffixes like
=X,-USD, or leading^for indices. - Pair short intervals with short ranges; Yahoo limits how much intraday history is available.
- Keep
maxConcurrencymoderate for larger watchlists. - Use
includeRawTimestampswhen downstream tools need Unix timestamps.
Limits and caveats
- This actor exports public Yahoo Finance data and does not provide investment advice.
- Some symbols, intervals, or ranges may be unavailable or delayed on Yahoo Finance.
- Intraday ranges can be limited by Yahoo's public chart endpoint.
- Always verify financial data before using it for trading, compliance, or high-stakes decisions.
API usage
curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/fetch_cat~yahoo-finance-stock-data-scraper/runs?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"symbols": ["AAPL", "MSFT", "SPY"],
"range": "1mo",
"interval": "1d"
}'
MCP and AI agents
You can run this actor through the official Apify MCP server at https://mcp.apify.com.
For a focused single-actor tool, use:
https://mcp.apify.com?tools=fetch_cat/yahoo-finance-stock-data-scraper
Agent-friendly inputs are symbols, range, interval, includeRawTimestamps, and maxConcurrency.
Support
If a run fails, returns no data, or a field looks wrong, open an issue from the Actor page.
Please include the Apify run ID or run URL, input JSON, one example public URL, query, or input item, what you expected, and what the dataset returned. Small reproducible inputs make parsing or site-layout issues much faster to fix.
