Retrieve list of cryptocurrency symbols on yahoo finance

[fja05680]

Hello,

Is there a way to retrieve the complete list of symbols on this page?

https://finance.yahoo.com/cryptocurrencies

thanks, great library!

Farrell

[dpguthrie]

Have you looked at the Screener class? It's not exactly that page, but there are some predefined screeners you can use that might get you all that data.

from yahooquery import Screener

s = Screener()
data = s.get_screeners('all_cryptocurrencies_us', count=250)

# data is in the quotes key
data['all_cryptocurrencies_us']['quotes']

Other crypto screeners you could use are: all_cryptocurrencies_au, all_cryptocurrencies_ca, all_cryptocurrencies_eu, all_cryptocurrencies_gb, and all_cryptocurrencies_in.

One of the issues right now though is if you specify a count that's bigger than the number of securities returned from that endpoint, you'll get an error "size is too large". I'm trying to see if I can find a better way to get that total so the user doesn't have to guess, but right now you have to kind of play around with that count argument.

Hope that helps.

[fja05680]

Doug, thanks for your quick and helpful response. Here is some added code that generates the list in case someone else is interested:

from yahooquery import Screener

s = Screener()
data = s.get_screeners('all_cryptocurrencies_us', count=250)

# data is in the quotes key
dicts = data['all_cryptocurrencies_us']['quotes']
symbols = [d['symbol'] for d in dicts]
symbols

Out:
['BTC-USD',
 'ETH-USD',
 'BNB-USD',
 'USDT-USD',
.
.
.

[rfripp2]

Hi! thanks for the solutions. For me its not working,i get this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\JUAN\Desktop\tradingToolsBackEnd\app.py", line 3, in <module>
    from utils import *
  File "C:\Users\JUAN\Desktop\tradingToolsBackEnd\utils.py", line 162, in <module>
    dicts = data['all_cryptocurrencies_us']['quotes']
KeyError: 'all_cryptocurrencies_us'

Any idea why? Thanks!

[Rain1047]

it's probably your network can't get connect to the https://finance.yahoo.com/cryptocurrencies, try to use global vpn will solve this problem.

[mweber89]

Was somebody able to pull price, bid and ask from cryptocurrencies?

[fja05680]

It would be no different than getting a quote for any security, for example, the symbol for Bitcoin in BTC-USD. However, the bid/ask doesn't appear on the quote page for Bitcoin:
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/BTC-USD?p=BTC-USD&.tsrc=fin-srch

That still leaves a question. How to get real time quotes using yahooquery? If Bid/Ask available, how to retrieve it?

[mweber89]

Exactly. General information looks good. But the quotes are missing..

[dpguthrie]

This appears to be specific to cryptocurrencies - the bid, ask, bidSize, and askSize are present when requesting other screeners. Also, just trying quotes does not yield that data either. Doesn't appear that YF has access or gives access to this data.

[fja05680]

BTW - Cryptocurrency info is provided to Yahoo Finance by https://coinmarketcap.com/
So bid/ask may not be available from that source.

Doug, how does one get a real time quote (last price) for a non-crypto symbol like 'SPY'?

[dpguthrie]

>>> data = Ticker('SPY').quotes
>>> data['SPY']['bid']
392.9
>>> data['SPY']['ask']
392.92

[rfripp2]

I still get a lot of Coin delisted errors when i get the symbols from CMC and then operate with them with yfinance, and i dont know how to pass the errors and still get the return for the ones working (besides manually add coin exceptions but thats lot of work and i dont want other person to do it)

[ersineser]

How i can retrieve complete list of stock quotes from any country? Example Turkey.
Thanks.

[ms82494]

You can accomplish this outside of yahooquery, by creating a screener on the Yahoo Finance website. You'll need a free Yahoo account if you want to save your screener, but you don't need the premium subscription. Just go to the screener page, click "Create New Screener", then "Equity Screener". A screener template will pop up. Just remove "United States" from the region, and replace it with Turkey.

[NeoDad89]

import yfinance as yf

data = yf.Ticker((list))

print(data.info)(description)

[algomaschine]

guys, many thanks! it works awesomely!

[algomaschine]

Thanks! I've seen exels in the internet that have tickets, and there are over hundred thousand tickets. Not sure that screener could handle that...

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[ms82494]

The web site paginates the results to handle large return sets. @ersineser seemed interested in Turkish stocks, specifically, and the Istanbul exchange lists less than a thousand equities. I've had no problem creating and running the screener for that. For most purposes such a list would not have to be created dynamically every day. I think it would be perfectly reasonable to run the screen on the web site, export the results into a portfolio, and then export that portfolio into a csv file. As a retail investor I wouldn't do this more than once a month.

But if one did need dynamically generated ticker lists, I think one could modify base.py, screener.py, and utils/screeners.py to create a get_customscreeners method, analogous to get_screeners, that would retrieve the results of custom screens saved under a Yahoo Finance user id.