Package Health Score

85 / 100

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Security review needed
popularity
Influential project
maintenance
Sustainable
community
Active

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Popularity

Influential project

GitHub Stars: 20.55K
Forks: 2.97K
Contributors: 140

Direct Usage Popularity

Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the PyPI package yfinance, we found that it has been starred 20,553 times.

Security

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Security and license risk for latest version

Release Date: Dec 22, 2025
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All security vulnerabilities belong to production dependencies of direct and indirect packages.

License

Apache-2.0

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Maintenance

Sustainable

Commit Frequency

Open Issues: 123
Open PR: 44
Last Release: 17 days ago
Last Commit: 17 days ago

Further analysis of the maintenance status of yfinance based on released PyPI versions cadence, the repository activity, and other data points determined that its maintenance is Sustainable.

We found that yfinance demonstrates a positive version release cadence with at least one new version released in the past 3 months.

As a healthy sign for on-going project maintenance, we found that the GitHub repository had at least 1 pull request or issue interacted with by the community.

Community

Active

Readme: Yes
Contributing.md: Yes
Code of Conduct: Yes
Contributors: 140
Funding: Yes

A good and healthy external contribution signal for yfinance project, which invites more than one hundred open source maintainers to collaborate on the repository.

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Package

Python Versions Compatibility: ==3.10.*, ==3.6.*, ==3.7.*, ==3.8.*, ==3.9.*

Age: 7 years
Latest Release: 17 days ago
Dependencies: 0 Direct
Versions: 139
Maintainers: 1
Wheels: OS Independent

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webbrowser.get().open(url)
        speak(f'Here is what I found for {search_term} on youtube')

    # 7: get stock price
    if there_exists(["price of"]):
        search_term = voice_data.lower().split(" of ")[-1].strip() #strip removes whitespace after/before a term in string
        stocks = {
            "apple":"AAPL",
            "microsoft":"MSFT",
            "facebook":"FB",
            "tesla":"TSLA",
            "bitcoin":"BTC-USD"
        }
        try:
            stock = stocks[search_term]
            stock = yf.Ticker(stock)
            price = stock.info["regularMarketPrice"]

            speak(f'price of {search_term} is {price} {stock.info["currency"]} {person_obj.name}')
        except:
            speak('oops, something went wrong')
    if there_exists(["exit", "quit", "goodbye"]):
        speak("going offline")
        exit()

View more ways to use yfinance

Download market data from Yahoo! Finance's API

yfinance offers a Pythonic way to fetch financial & market data from Yahoo!Ⓡ finance.

> [!IMPORTANT]
> Yahoo!, Y!Finance, and Yahoo! finance are registered trademarks of Yahoo, Inc. > > yfinance is not affiliated, endorsed, or vetted by Yahoo, Inc. It's an open-source tool that uses Yahoo's publicly available APIs, and is intended for research and educational purposes. > > You should refer to Yahoo!'s terms of use (here, here, and here) for details on your rights to use the actual data downloaded. > > Remember - the Yahoo! finance API is intended for personal use only.

> [!TIP] > THE NEW DOCUMENTATION WEBSITE IS NOW LIVE! 🤘 > > Visit ranaroussi.github.io/yfinance

Main components

Ticker: single ticker data
Tickers: multiple tickers' data
download: download market data for multiple tickers
Market: get information about a market
WebSocket and AsyncWebSocket: live streaming data
Search: quotes and news from search
Sector and Industry: sector and industry information
EquityQuery and Screener: build query to screen market

Installation

Install yfinance from PYPI using pip:

$ pip install yfinance

yfinance relies on the community to investigate bugs and contribute code. Here's how you can help.

Legal Stuff

yfinance is distributed under the Apache Software License. See the LICENSE.txt file in the release for details.

AGAIN - yfinance is not affiliated, endorsed, or vetted by Yahoo, Inc. It's an open-source tool that uses Yahoo's publicly available APIs, and is intended for research and educational purposes. You should refer to Yahoo!'s terms of use (here, here, and here) for details on your rights to use the actual data downloaded.

P.S.

Please drop me a note with any feedback you have.

Ran Aroussi

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What is yfinance?

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Is yfinance popular?

The python package yfinance receives a total of 672,177 weekly downloads. As such, yfinance popularity was classified as an influential project. Visit the popularity section on Snyk Advisor to see the full health analysis.

Is yfinance well maintained?

We found indications that yfinance maintenance is sustainable demonstrating some project activity. We saw a total of 140 open source contributors collaborating on the project. See the full package health analysis to learn more about the package maintenance status.

Is yfinance safe to use?

While scanning the latest version of yfinance, we found that a security review is needed. A total of 0 vulnerabilities or license issues were detected. See the full security scan results.

Last updated on 7 January-2026, at 16:37 (UTC).

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