yahoo_finance_api2_js

Yahoo Finance API for JavaScript (Deno and Node.js)

Minimal API to interact with Yahoo Finance for Deno/JavaScript (forked from pkout/yahoo_finance_api2) for Deno and Node.js

Usage (Deno)

The following example retrieves 10 days of 5 minute frequency Microsoft (MSFT) stock data.

> deno

import * as share from "https://code4fukui.github.io/yahoo_finance_api2_js/share.js";

const my_share = new share.Share("NBR");
const symbol_data = await my_share.get_historical(
    share.PERIOD_TYPE_DAY,
    10,
    share.FREQUENCY_TYPE_MINUTE,
    5
);
console.log(JSON.stringify(symbol_data, null, 2));

The output format:

{
  "timestamp": [...],
  "open": [...],
  "high": [...],
  "low": [...],
  "close": [...],
  "adj_close": [...],
  "volume": [...]
}

Usage (Node.js)

download this repo and use “./share.js” on import

import * as share from "./share.js";

API

• class Share:
  • get_historical(period_type, period, frequency_type, frequency)
    • Returns historical data for the given period type (share.PERIOD_TYPE_DAY, share.PERIOD_TYPE_WEEK, share.PERIOD_TYPE_MONTH, share.PERIOD_TYPE_YEAR), period (1, 5, 10, etc.), frequency_type (share.FREQUENCY_TYPE_MINUTE, share.FREQUENCY_TYPE_DAY, share.FREQUENCY_TYPE_MONTH, share.FREQUENCY_TYPE_YEAR), and frequency (1, 5, 10, etc.). Only certain combinations of these parameters are allowed.

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