yahoofinance

README

Yahoo Finance Quotes

A small Go library to retrieve stock quotes from Yahoo Finance.

There is also a command line program that uses the library

Build

go get github.com/scottjbarr/yahoofinance/cmd/yahoofinance

Usage

Command line program example.

yahoofinance GE MO AAPL C MSFT USDAUD=X GS

{AAPL Apple Inc. 124.08 3/26/2015 10:45am}
{C Citigroup, Inc. Common Stock 50.88 3/26/2015 10:45am}
{GE General Electric Company Common 24.81 3/26/2015 10:45am}
{GS Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The) 186.375 3/26/2015 10:45am}
{MO Altria Group, Inc. 50.5 3/26/2015 10:45am}
{MSFT Microsoft Corporation 41.14 3/26/2015 10:45am}
{USDAUD=X USD/AUD 1.2762 3/26/2015 2:59pm}

Testing

go test

... or alternatively

goconvey

References

• Mocking HTTP Responses in Golang

Licence

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Scott Barr

See LICENSE.md

Documentation

Overview

Package yahoofinance provides a way to fetch quotes for equities and currencies from Yahoo Finance.

Index

• type Client
  • func NewClient() *Client
  • func (client *Client) GetQuotes(symbols []string) ([]Quote, error)
• type Quote

Types

type Client

type Client struct {
	BaseURL    string
	HTTPClient *http.Client
}

Client provides access to the Quotes service.

func NewClient

func NewClient() *Client

NewClient returns a new default Client

func (*Client) GetQuotes

func (client *Client) GetQuotes(symbols []string) ([]Quote, error)

GetQuotes return Quotes for the given symbols

type Quote

type Quote struct {
	Symbol        string  `json:"symbol"`
	Name          string  `json:"name"`
	PreviousClose float64 `json:"previous_close"`
	Open          float64 `json:"open"`
	Price         float64 `json:"price"`
	Change        float64 `json:"change"`
	ChangePct     float64 `json:"change_pct"`
	DayLow        float64 `json:"day_low"`
	DayHigh       float64 `json:"day_high"`
	LastTradeDate string  `json:"last_trade_date"`
	LastTradeTime string  `json:"last_trade_time"`
	LastTrade     float64 `json:"last_trade"`
}

Quote data