# Download market data from Yahoo! Finance's API
**yfinance** offers a Pythonic way to fetch financial & market data from [Yahoo!Ⓡ finance](https://finance.yahoo.com).
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> [!IMPORTANT]
> **Yahoo!, Y!Finance, and Yahoo! finance are registered trademarks of Yahoo, Inc.**
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> yfinance is **not** affiliated, endorsed, or vetted by Yahoo, Inc. It's an open-source tool that uses Yahoo's publicly available APIs, and is intended for research and educational purposes.
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> **You should refer to Yahoo!'s terms of use** ([here](https://policies.yahoo.com/us/en/yahoo/terms/product-atos/apiforydn/index.htm), [here](https://legal.yahoo.com/us/en/yahoo/terms/otos/index.html), and [here](https://policies.yahoo.com/us/en/yahoo/terms/index.htm)) **for details on your rights to use the actual data downloaded.
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> Remember - the Yahoo! finance API is intended for personal use only.**
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## Main components
- `Ticker`: single ticker data
- `Tickers`: multiple tickers' data
- `download`: download market data for multiple tickers
- `Market`: get information about a market
- `WebSocket` and `AsyncWebSocket`: live streaming data
- `Search`: quotes and news from search
- `Sector` and `Industry`: sector and industry information
- `EquityQuery` and `Screener`: build query to screen market
## Installation
Install `yfinance` from PYPI using `pip`:
``` {.sourceCode .bash}
$ pip install yfinance
```
To install without `curl_cffi` for requests fallback, see [Advanced ▸ Installation](https://ranaroussi.github.io/yfinance/advanced/install.html).
### [yfinance relies on the community to investigate bugs and contribute code. Here's how you can help.](https://github.com/ranaroussi/yfinance/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md)
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### Legal Stuff
**yfinance** is distributed under the **Apache Software License**. See
the [LICENSE.txt](https://github.com/ranaroussi/yfinance/blob/main/LICENSE.txt) file in the release for details.
AGAIN - yfinance is **not** affiliated, endorsed, or vetted by Yahoo, Inc. It's
an open-source tool that uses Yahoo's publicly available APIs, and is
intended for research and educational purposes. You should refer to Yahoo!'s terms of use
([here](https://policies.yahoo.com/us/en/yahoo/terms/product-atos/apiforydn/index.htm),
[here](https://legal.yahoo.com/us/en/yahoo/terms/otos/index.html), and
[here](https://policies.yahoo.com/us/en/yahoo/terms/index.htm)) for
details on your rights to use the actual data downloaded.
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### P.S.
Please drop me a note with any feedback you have.
**Ran Aroussi**