Get Yahoo Finance Stock Data

---
name: get-yahoo-finance-stock-data
description: "This skill should be used when the user asks to \"get stock prices\", \"check stock quotes\", \"look up earnings\", \"get financial data\", \"find trending stocks\", or needs stock market data from Yahoo Finance."
category: "Finance & Crypto"
author: community
version: "1.0.0"
icon: coins
---

# Yahoo Finance CLI

A Node.js CLI for fetching comprehensive stock data from Yahoo Finance using the `yahoo-finance2` library.

## Requirements

- Node.js
- `yahoo-finance2` installed globally or available as `yf`
- `jq`

## Install

```bash
brew install jq
npm install yahoo-finance2
sudo ln -s /opt/homebrew/bin/yahoo-finance /usr/local/bin/yf
```

## Usage

The tool is available as `yf`. It outputs JSON, which can be piped to `jq` for filtering.

```bash
yf <module> <symbol> [queryOptions]
```

## Modules

### Quote (Real-time Price & Data)
Get real-time price, change, and basic data.
```bash
yf quote AAPL
yf quote AAPL | jq '.regularMarketPrice'
```

### Quote Summary (Fundamentals & More)
Get detailed modules like earnings, financial data, and profiles.
```bash
# Get specific sub-modules
yf quoteSummary AAPL '{"modules":["assetProfile", "financialData", "defaultKeyStatistics"]}'

# Common modules to request:
# - assetProfile (Company info, sector)
# - financialData (Target price, margins, cash)
# - defaultKeyStatistics (Enterprise value, float, shares)
# - calendarEvents (Earnings dates)
# - earnings (History and trend)
# - recommendationTrend (Analyst ratings)
# - upgradeDowngradeHistory
```

### Insights
Get technical and fundamental insights (valuation, outlook).
```bash
yf insights AAPL
```

### Search
Search for symbols.
```bash
yf search "Apple"
yf search "BTC-USD"
```

### Historical Data (Deprecated)
Get historical OHLCV data. Note: `historical` is deprecated; use `chart` instead.
```bash
# Deprecated - use chart instead
yf historical AAPL '{"period1":"2024-01-01","period2":"2024-12-31"}'

# Recommended: use chart
yf chart AAPL '{"period1":"2024-01-01","period2":"2024-12-31"}'
```

### Trending
See what's trending.
```bash
yf trendingSymbols US
```

## Examples

**Quick Price Check**
```bash
# Full JSON then filter with jq
yf quote NVDA | jq '{symbol: .symbol, price: .regularMarketPrice, changePct: .regularMarketChangePercent}'
```

**Next Earnings Date**
```bash
# Use single quotes around the JSON option in zsh/bash
yf quoteSummary TSLA '{"modules":["calendarEvents"]}' | jq '.calendarEvents.earnings.earningsDate'
```

**Analyst Recommendations**
```bash
yf quoteSummary AAPL '{"modules":["recommendationTrend"]}'
```

**Company Profile**
```bash
yf quoteSummary MSFT '{"modules":["assetProfile"]}'
```

**Historical OHLCV**
```bash
# Using chart (recommended)
yf chart AAPL '{"period1":"2024-01-01","period2":"2024-12-31","interval":"1d"}' | jq '.quotes[0:5]'

# Using historical (deprecated, but still works)
yf historical AAPL '{"period1":"2024-01-01","period2":"2024-12-31","interval":"1d"}' | jq '.[0:5]'
```

**Search for Symbols**
```bash
yf search 'Apple'
yf search 'BTC-USD'
```

**Trending Symbols (US)**
```bash
yf trendingSymbols US
```

**Insights (valuation, outlook)**
```bash
yf insights AAPL
```

## Troubleshooting

- **Cookies:** The tool automatically handles cookies (stored in `~/.yf2-cookies.json`). If you encounter issues, try deleting this file.
- **JSON Output:** The output is pure JSON. Use `jq` to parse it for scripts or readability.

Additional tips:
- If you see authentication or parsing errors, delete the cookie file and retry:

```bash
rm -f ~/.yf2-cookies.json
yf quote AAPL
```

- On macOS with zsh, prefer single quotes around JSON option arguments and use double quotes inside (see examples above).
- If you want a compact numeric value only (no jq), use a short jq filter, e.g.:

```bash
yf quote AAPL | jq -r '.regularMarketPrice'
```