Using Yahoo Finance API to obtain the stock price at a particluar time?

Question

I am developing Stock tracking software in Python. I am able to obtain the price of a given stock on a current day. Given a stock, I am able to obtain the real time price of that stock.

For analysis purpose, I am trying to obtain the price of a given stock on a particular day.

For example, is it possible that I can obtain the stock price of Apple (AAPL) on May 5th, 2015 at 11.30AM ?

I can get the data from Yahoo finance through the interactive chart tool : http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=AAPL+Interactive#{"allowChartStacking":true}

I was wondering, if we have the API to do the same.

Thanks

Answer 1

The short answer with a quick google result is yes here. While you can use this API, Chris reeves go through datamining specifically the stock exchange in his tutorial here. What I prefer to use is (scrapy)[http://scrapy.org/]. There are other options including but not limited to BeautifulSoup4 and urllib. Each has its own strengths and weaknesses but I prefer Scrapy as I use it the most.