Stock Price API Finnhub

How to fetch current Stock Prices or the historical dividend of companies for free? Finnhub code examples in python.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Stock Price

Historical Dividend

Code

Result

Stock Price

Finnhub is a API where you can request for example stock prices:

https://finnhub.io/docs/api#quote

With the quote command you get the open / high / low / current and previous close price.

Historical Dividend

https://finnhub.io/docs/api#stock-dividends

Here it is possible to define a start and end date for a specified stock symbol.

Code

You have to replace your own API token.

import requests
from pprint import pprint
import json

stockSymbol = "APC.F"
stockPriceRequest = requests.get('https://finnhub.io/api/v1/quote?symbol=%s&token=XXXXXXX' % stockSymbol)
stockPriceJson = stockPriceRequest.json()

print(stockPriceJson)
print(stockPriceJson['c'])

dividendRequest = requests.get('https://finnhub.io/api/v1/stock/dividend?symbol=%s&from=2000-01-01&to=2021-01-01&token=XXXXXX' % stockSymbol)
dividendJson = dividendRequest.json()

pprint(dividendJson)

for i in dividendJson:
    print(i['amount'])