Yahoo Stock Information (Python recipe) by Alexander James Wallar

ActiveState Code (http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577989/)

#!/usr/bin/env python
#
#  Copyright (c) 2007-2008, Corey Goldberg (corey@goldb.org)
#
#  license: GNU LGPL
#
#  This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
#  modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
#  License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
#  version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
#
# Made into class by Alexander Wallar on December 17, 2011

import urllib

class StockInfo:
    """
    Constructor
    """
    def __init__(self, __symbol):
        self.symbol = __symbol
        
    def __request(self, stat):
        url = 'http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=%s&f=%s' % (self.symbol, stat)
        return urllib.urlopen(url).read().strip().strip('"')
    
    def get_all(self):
        """
        Get all available quote data for the given ticker symbol.
        Returns a dictionary.
        """
        values = self.__request('l1c1va2xj1b4j4dyekjm3m4rr5p5p6s7').split(',')
        data = {}
        data['price'] = values[0]
        data['change'] = values[1]
        data['volume'] = values[2]
        data['avg_daily_volume'] = values[3]
        data['stock_exchange'] = values[4]
        data['market_cap'] = values[5]
        data['book_value'] = values[6]
        data['ebitda'] = values[7]
        data['dividend_per_share'] = values[8]
        data['dividend_yield'] = values[9]
        data['earnings_per_share'] = values[10]
        data['52_week_high'] = values[11]
        data['52_week_low'] = values[12]
        data['50day_moving_avg'] = values[13]
        data['200day_moving_avg'] = values[14]
        data['price_earnings_ratio'] = values[15]
        data['price_earnings_growth_ratio'] = values[16]
        data['price_sales_ratio'] = values[17]
        data['price_book_ratio'] = values[18]
        data['short_ratio'] = values[19]
        return data

    get_price = lambda self: float(self.__request('l1'))    
    get_change = lambda self: float(self.__request('c1'))
    get_volume = lambda self: float(self.__request('v'))
    get_avg_daily_volume = lambda self: float(self.__request('a2'))
    get_stock_exchange = lambda self: float(self.__request('x'))    
    get_market_cap = lambda self: float(self.__request('j1')) 
    get_book_value = lambda self: float(self.__request('b4'))
    get_ebitda = lambda self: float(self.__request('j4'))
    get_dividend_per_share = lambda self: float(self.__request('d'))
    get_dividend_yield = lambda self: float(self.__request('y'))
    get_earnings_per_share = lambda self: float(self.__request('e'))
    get_52_week_high = lambda self: float(self.__request('k'))
    get_52_week_low = lambda self: float(self.__request('j'))
    get_50day_moving_avg = lambda self: float(self.__request('m3'))
    get_200day_moving_avg = lambda self: float(self.__request('m4'))
    get_price_earnings_ratio = lambda self: float(self.__request('r'))
    get_price_earnings_growth_ratio = lambda self: float(self.__request('r5'))
    get_price_sales_ratio = lambda self: float(self.__request('p5'))
    get_price_book_ratio = lambda self: float(self.__request('p6'))
    get_short_ratio = lambda self: float(self.__request('s7'))
        
    def get_historical_prices(self, start_date, end_date):
        """
        Get historical prices for the given ticker symbol.
        Date format is 'YYYYMMDD'
    
        Returns a nested list.
        """
        url = 'http://ichart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=%s&' % self.symbol + \
              'd=%s&' % str(int(end_date[4:6]) - 1) + \
              'e=%s&' % str(int(end_date[6:8])) + \
              'f=%s&' % str(int(end_date[0:4])) + \
              'g=d&' + \
              'a=%s&' % str(int(start_date[4:6]) - 1) + \
              'b=%s&' % str(int(start_date[6:8])) + \
              'c=%s&' % str(int(start_date[0:4])) + \
              'ignore=.csv'
        days = urllib.urlopen(url).readlines()
        data = [day[:-2].split(',') for day in days]
        return data