Here is an example of valid URL that can be used to download various stock information, i.e. If you do not know about URL formatting, head to the more detailed article. To make a request to the CSV API, we are going to use a URL with the following form: You can therefore copy the following URLs to download stock data. It is of course possible to access Yahoo Finance’s stock data using a Web browser.
#HOW TO DOWNLOAD STOCK QUOTES INTO EXCEL HOW TO#
If you are interested in the API for historical quotes (table.csv), please, visit the previous article.įirst, we need to understand how to use the URL that provided stock information. In this article, we use the API for real-time stock quotes and currency rates (quotes.csv). VBA can be used to import data automatically into Excel files using these APIs. Yahoo has several online APIs (Application Programming Interface) that provides financial data related to quoted companies: Quotes and Currency Rates, Historical Quotes, Sectors, Industries, and Companies. Extra features: improving user experience.Dashboard: building a user-friendly, Excel application.
#HOW TO DOWNLOAD STOCK QUOTES INTO EXCEL CODE#
Main VBA Macro: the code that does the job.Yahoo Finance: understanding the URL parameters (Symbols and Tags).You can find the whole source code of this tutorial here on GitHub, or you can download the following Excel file that contains the VBA code together with the Dashboard and a list of stock symbols: So, if you are interested in how we come up with the “magic” VBA macro called “LoadExternalData” presented below be sure to check out the original article. In this article, we are going to reuse the code produced in the previous article. This time, we are going to show you how to easily download stock quotes information in real time from the Yahoo Finance API (quotes.csv) using Excel VBA. With the success of our first article about Yahoo Finance and Excel VBA, we decided to write another (shorter but more precise) article about this topic.
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