Does Python has a similar library like quantmod in R that can download financial statement data?

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user2668789 picture user2668789 · Aug 16, 2013 · Viewed 9.6k times · Source

Does Python has a similar library like quantmod in R that can download financial statement data? I want to download the historical revenue of each stock in Python. Can someone give me a hint? Thanks.

Answer

elyase picture elyase · Aug 16, 2013

Yes a lot of them, zipline, pandas and even matplotlib can download data from Yahoo Finance. I recommend you use pandas:

>>> from pandas.io.data import DataReader
>>> from datetime import datetime

>>> goog = DataReader("GOOG",  "yahoo", datetime(2000,1,1), datetime(2012,1,1))
>>> goog["Adj Close"]
Date
2004-08-19    100.34
2004-08-20    108.31
2004-08-23    109.40
2004-08-24    104.87
2004-08-25    106.00
...

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