yfinance

yfinance is a popular open-source Python library that provides a simple way to download historical market data from Yahoo Finance. It enables easy access to stock prices, financials, options data, and more for various financial instruments.

Key Features

• Historical price data retrieval
• Company financial statement access
• Options chain information
• Dividend and split history
• Easy integration with pandas

yfinance is particularly useful for financial analysts conducting market research, algorithmic traders backtesting strategies, data scientists analyzing market trends, and students learning financial analysis through Python.