yahoo-finance-ledger-cli

Grab historical stock prices from Yahoo Finance and output in Ledger CLI format.

How to use

Install the Firefox Selenium web driver (instructions here).

Create a Python 3 virtual environment, activate it, and install the packages from requirements.txt.

Create a text file named .config at the repository root, and include any stock symbols you'd like to get price information for. Institution and account names will be included in the output to group the returned information (as shown below).

To execute the script run python main.py 2023-05-10 -v. The verbose flag is optional, though useful if there are many symbols to process (to interactively view progress). The output is saved in an output.txt file by default.

Example .config file:

Institution:
  AccountName:
    - AAPL
    - MSFT
    - AMZN
    - GOOGL
    - FB

The generated output.txt:

; Institution
; AccountName
P 2023/05/10            AAPL           USD    173.56
P 2023/05/10            MSFT           USD    312.31
P 2023/05/10            AMZN           USD    110.19
P 2023/05/10            GOOGL          USD    111.75
P 2023/05/10            FB             USD    233.08