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yahoo_fin, a package for scraping stock prices and financial data, was recently updated to version 0.8.6. The latest version has several new features, including the following: Users can now pull quarterly fundamentals data (in addition to yearly). This includes balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements. Earnings data can be extracted with the new get_earnings method. If you're looking to get multiple pieces of fundamentals data for the same stock - i.e. cash flows, income statements, and balance sheets, then make sure to check out a new method called get_financials. This method allows you to easily pull data points from each of these sources in a single request. New methods were added to retrieve historical dividend payouts and splits information. A bug in the ticker extraction methods causing a…

Package updates First of all - thank you to everyone who has contacted me regarding the yahoo_fin package! Due to some changes in Yahoo Finance's website, I've updated the source code of yahoo_fin. To upgrade to the latest version (0.8.4), you can use pip: [code] pip install yahoo_fin --upgrade [/code] Get weekly and monthly stock prices The most recent version includes all functionality from the previous version, but now also includes the ability to pull weekly and monthly historical stock prices in the get_data method. [code lang="python"] from yahoo_fin import stock_info as si # default daily data daily_data = si.get_data("amzn") # get weekly data weekly_data = si.get_data("amzn", interval = "1wk") # get monthly data monthly_data = si.get_data("amzn", interval = "1mo") [/code] Speed-up in functions The options module includes an update…