import requests from bs4 import BeautifulSoup """ Get the HTML code of finance yahoo and select the current qsp-price Current AAPL stock price is 228.43 Current AMZN stock price is 201.85 Current IBM stock price is 210.30 Current GOOG stock price is 177.86 Current MSFT stock price is 414.82 Current ORCL stock price is 188.87 """ def stock_price(symbol: str = "AAPL") -> str: """ >>> stock_price("EEEE") '- ' >>> isinstance(float(stock_price("GOOG")),float) True """ url = f"https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/{symbol}?p={symbol}" yahoo_finance_source = requests.get( url, headers={"USER-AGENT": "Mozilla/5.0"}, timeout=10 ).text soup = BeautifulSoup(yahoo_finance_source, "html.parser") if specific_fin_streamer_tag := soup.find("span", {"data-testid": "qsp-price"}): return specific_fin_streamer_tag.get_text() return "No tag with the specified data-testid attribute found." # Search for the symbol at https://finance.yahoo.com/lookup if __name__ == "__main__": from doctest import testmod testmod() for symbol in "AAPL AMZN IBM GOOG MSFT ORCL".split(): print(f"Current {symbol:<4} stock price is {stock_price(symbol):>8}")