yfinance
Download historical market data from Yahoo! Finance API for analysis.
ML and data science PyPI Apache-2.0
Used in agent projects
36
0.3% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in ml and data science
#16 of 28
by use in those projects
Downloads
4M
PyPI, last 7 days, yfinance
GitHub stars
25.5K
last push Oct 5, 2026
How yfinance is used
yfinance is a dependency in 36 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.3%), #16 of 28 in ml and data science. The most used alternative there is NumPy. Projects that use it most often also use pandas (80.6%), Requests (75.0%), NumPy (66.7%).
Often used with yfinance
| pandas | 80.6% of yfinance projects · 26.7× more than average |
|---|---|
| Requests | 75.0% of yfinance projects · 14.1× more than average |
| NumPy | 66.7% of yfinance projects · 17.4× more than average |
| python-dotenv | 63.9% of yfinance projects · 9.8× more than average |
| OpenAI Python Library | 38.9% of yfinance projects · 20.2× more than average |
| FastAPI | 38.9% of yfinance projects · 9.2× more than average |
| SciPy | 36.1% of yfinance projects · 32.5× more than average |
| Uvicorn | 36.1% of yfinance projects · 8.4× more than average |
By coding agent
| GitHub Copilot | 0.6% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Claude Code | 0.5% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list yfinance as a dependency.
Install
| Package | pip install yfinance |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (34), Next.js (2) |
| Example projects | The-Swarm-Corporation/AutoHedge, MDalamin5/End-to-End-Agentic-Ai-Automation-Lab, SharesDAO/Arbitrage-Trader, huangyingting/mcp-workshop |
Alternatives to yfinance
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NumPy pypi Fundamental Python library for numerical computing with arrays and matrices. |
487 (3.8%) | 21M | 33K | — |
| pandas pypi Data manipulation and analysis library with DataFrames for structured data. |
383 (3.0%) | 143M | 50K | — |
| scikit-learn pypi Python machine learning library with classification, regression and clustering algorithms. |
160 (1.3%) | 44.3M | 67.5K | — |
| SciPy pypi Fundamental algorithms for scientific computing with optimized numerical routines. |
141 (1.1%) | 72.2M | 15.1K | — |
| PyTorch pypi Deep learning framework with tensors and dynamic neural networks with GPU support. |
109 (0.9%) | 13.2M | 104K | — |
| Sentence Transformers pypi Pre-trained models for semantic embeddings, retrieval and reranking. |
83 (0.7%) | 5.1M | 19.2K | — |
| Hugging Face Transformers pypi State-of-the-art NLP and multimodal models for inference and training. |
80 (0.6%) | 24.8M | 167K | Apache 2.0 License |
| NetworkX pypi Python package for creating, analyzing and manipulating complex networks and graphs. |
73 (0.6%) | 50.2M | 17.3K | — |