Yahoo Finance Scraper

Extract stock quotes, financial statements, analyst ratings, and market news from Yahoo Finance. Built on spider-browser .

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target
finance.yahoo.com: success rate
99.9%: latency
~4ms

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

yahoo-finance-scraper.ts

import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://finance.yahoo.com/most-active/");
await page.content();

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const stocks = [];
  document.querySelectorAll("table tbody tr").forEach(el => {
    const symbol = el.querySelector("td:nth-child(1) a")?.textContent?.trim();
    const name = el.querySelector("td:nth-child(2)")?.textContent?.trim();
    const price = el.querySelector("td:nth-child(3) fin-streamer")?.textContent?.trim();
    const change = el.querySelector("td:nth-child(4) fin-streamer")?.textContent?.trim();
    const volume = el.querySelector("td:nth-child(5) fin-streamer")?.textContent?.trim();
    if (symbol) stocks.push({ symbol, name, price, change, volume });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: stocks.length, stocks: stocks.slice(0, 20) });
})()`);

console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();

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Fetch API

One endpoint for finance.yahoo.com.

Structured JSON from finance.yahoo.com with a single POST. AI-resolved selectors, cached on the first call.

POST /fetch/finance.yahoo.com/

TickerPriceChangeVolumeMarket cap52-week range

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cURL

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/finance.yahoo.com/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

Python

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/finance.yahoo.com/",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={"return_format": "json"},
)
print(resp.json())

Node.js

const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/finance.yahoo.com/", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({ return_format: "json" }),
});
const data = await resp.json();
console.log(data);

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