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ranaroussi

yfinance

Download market data from Yahoo! Finance's API
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

yfinance has 25.6M monthly downloads and 25K GitHub stars. Version 1.5.1, first published in 2019.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.

It is built on top of beautifulsoup4, curl-cffi and multitasking. It is used by 839 tracked packages, including quantstats, openbb-yfinance and mcp-yahoo-finance.

GitHub topics include pandas, yahoo-finance-api and yahoo-finance.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (ranaroussi/yfinance) with 2 other packages. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
1.1M
Week
7.5M
Month
25.6M
Stars
24.6K
Forks
3.3K
Issues
101
Version
1.5.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
91
Adoption
100
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
9 days ago
Monthly downloads
25,633,599
• Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
25,633,599
Stars
24,552
Stars per 1k downloads
0.96
• Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
1,070,003
Month daily avg
854,453
Momentum
+25.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
• Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
Apache
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
9 days ago
Total releases
147
Releases/year
20.6
• Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
158
Monthly downloads
25,633,599
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
88
 
Issue Burden
4.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
6.8
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
4.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 854.7K
Windows 24.5K
macOS 19.7K

Python Versions

3.12
58.1% 500.4K
3.11
21.1% 182.0K
3.13
9.7% 83.6K
3.9
6.4% 54.9K
3.10
4.7% 40.5K

Top Countries

1. US US
791.8K
2. JP JP
18.8K
3. SG SG
10.5K
4. IN IN
9.1K
5. DE DE
8.2K
6. HK HK
7.4K
7. TW TW
6.6K
8. CN CN
6.2K
9. KR KR
4.5K
10. NL NL
4.0K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
Apache
First Release
May 26, 2019
Last Release
1 week ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
1.5.1
Total Releases
147
Contributors
158
Open PRs
57
Archived
No
Author
Ran Aroussi
Python Versions
3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
pandas yahoo finance pandas datareader
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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