A comprehensive Python library providing programmatic access to Yahoo Finance endpoints including real-time pricing, fundamentals, and analyst estimates.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install yahooquery
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install yahooquery using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
Prefer to download?
Get the raw skill files in a ZIP archive.
What is Yahoo Finance Data (yahooquery)?
The yahooquery skill is a professional-grade Python interface designed to pull exhaustive financial data from Yahoo Finance. As part of the Openclaw Skills collection, this tool enables developers and AI agents to retrieve company-specific data, market trends, and premium research reports. It stands out by providing access to nearly all Yahoo Finance endpoints, making it an essential component for building automated trading systems or financial research bots.
By using this skill, you can bypass the limitations of standard scrapers through a structured API-like experience. It supports everything from basic ticker information to complex options chains and institutional ownership details, all while maintaining high performance through asynchronous request handling.
Yahoo Finance Data (yahooquery) Use Cases
- Automating real-time portfolio tracking and valuation updates.
- Building custom stock screeners based on day gainers, losers, or most active securities.
- Performing deep fundamental analysis using multi-year income statements and balance sheets.
- Monitoring analyst sentiment through recommendation trends and earnings estimates.
- Investigating institutional and mutual fund ownership for specific tickers.
How Yahoo Finance Data (yahooquery) Works
- Instantiate the Ticker class with one or more symbols to target specific securities.
- Configure performance settings such as asynchronous execution and retry logic for high-volume data retrieval.
- Access specific data modules like .price or .history() to fetch market data in real-time or historical intervals.
- Process the returned data structures, which are natively compatible with Pandas DataFrames, for further analysis.
- Optionally use the Research class with a premium subscription to access proprietary analyst reports and trade ideas.
Yahoo Finance Data (yahooquery) Setup
To integrate this capability into your environment, install the library using the following command:
python3 -m pip install yahooquery
Ensure your environment supports Python 3.7+ and has dependencies like pandas and beautifulsoup4 available to process the incoming Openclaw Skills data.
Yahoo Finance Data (yahooquery) Data Schema & Taxonomy
The skill organizes data into logical modules within the Ticker class. Most outputs can be converted to JSON or Pandas DataFrames for easy consumption.
| Category | Key Methods | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Market Data | .price, .history() |
Real-time OHLC, volume, and historical price action. |
| Financials | .income_statement(), .cash_flow() |
Standardized accounting statements and valuation measures. |
| Analysis | .earnings_trend, .gradings |
Analyst estimates, upgrades, and downgrades. |
| Profile | .asset_profile, .company_officers |
Corporate metadata, industry sector, and executive data. |
| Ownership | .major_holders, .insider_transactions |
Breakdown of institutional, fund, and insider positions. |
Yahoo Finance Data (yahooquery) Advanced Features
- Asynchronous requests support fetching data for multiple symbols concurrently using max_workers.
- Automatic chunking for high-resolution historical data (e.g., retrieving 30 days of 1-minute intervals).
- Robust error handling with configurable exponential backoff and status code forcelists.
- Global market summaries and trending ticker discovery across different countries.
- Seamless integration with Yahoo Finance Premium accounts for proprietary research and technical insights.
SKILL.md
Loading
Related Openclaw Skills
Adaptive Skill Factory
A procedural skill for agents to dynamically manage their capabilities by discovering, installing, or building targeted skills.
OpenClaw Marketplace (openclawmp)
OpenClaw Marketplace is an asset registry and ecosystem where AI agents and developers discover, install, and share specialized capabilities.
WHOOP Central
A comprehensive integration to fetch and manage personal health metrics including recovery, sleep, and strain from the WHOOP v2 API.
ClawAudit
ClawAudit is a static security analyzer that scans agent skill files for vulnerabilities, prompt injections, and unauthorized data exfiltration patterns.
Public API Skill Creator
A specialized tool to discover, test, and transform public APIs into ready-to-use Openclaw Skills.
Arbiter
A decision-brokering skill that allows AI agents to push complex plans and architectural choices for asynchronous human review and approval.
Featured*
