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Yahoo Finance extraction / 2026

How to scrape data from Yahoo Finance in 2026

Market pages mix quote data, charts, navigation, analysis, and news. The finance API can first resolve a company name into equity symbols, then keep the latest public snapshot and a bounded, configurable history compact enough for research assistants and data pipelines. A requested quote currency converts the snapshot and chart-ready history in the same operation; ordinary Yahoo Finance URLs still use the generic extractor with a one-month native-currency default.

Quick answer

Use the public page URL you already have.

Send the ordinary public Yahoo Finance URL to extractor.sh. Choose JSON for stable fields or Markdown when an AI model will read the result directly. The API uses GET, so an identical successful request can be served from Cloudflare’s edge cache.

curl --get 'https://extractor.sh/api/extract' \
  --data-urlencode 'url=https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL/' \
  --data-urlencode 'format=json'

Available data

What you can extract

  • Company-name and partial-ticker equity search
  • Latest available public market snapshot in the native or requested quote currency
  • Configurable history from one day through the maximum available range, capped at 512 points
  • Exchange, symbol, market state, conversion metadata, and canonical URL when available
  • A source-linked Markdown or schema-v1 JSON document

AI workflows

Where normalized data helps

  • Market research assistants
  • Source-linked financial RAG
  • Public quote monitoring
  • Company and security research

AI-ready output

Markdown for models. JSON for systems.

Raw HTML consumes tokens on navigation, scripts, styling, and interface labels. Clean Markdown keeps the readable hierarchy for LLM prompts and RAG chunks. Normalized JSON is better when your application needs an explicit semantic type, source, author, publication date, media, attributes, and collection items.

Always retain the canonical URL from the response. AI-generated summaries should remain traceable to the public source, especially when the underlying page can change.

Boundaries

Public data only

  • Values may be delayed and are not suitable for order execution.
  • Only recognized public quote and price-history pages are supported.
  • The output is public market information, not financial or investment advice.

extractor.sh does not bypass CAPTCHAs, login walls, paywalls, access controls, or regional restrictions. Review the source’s terms and applicable law before collecting or reusing data.