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Gain insights into using the YH Finance API with Python. Explore account setup, querying historical and real-time data, and integrating the API into Django applications for financial data analysis.

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The YH Finance API allows developers to implement market and securities data directly into their applications.

This course is a hands-on guide to the YH Finance API in Python. Get started with the API’s various endpoints. Learn more about the general API spec and how to set up an account to generate an API key on the YH Finance platform. Find out more on how to query historical and real-time data for stocks, ETFs, and similar securities. With direct access to market data, you’ll integrate the API endpoints into a finance application written in Django, a Python framework.

You'll gain a basic understanding of working with YH Finance data in this course. You’ll finish with reflection and resources to leverage the YH Finance API further.

Getting Financial Data Using YH Finance API in Python

So far, we've been using symbols in our endpoints to get information about the securities. But what if the user does not know the security’s symbol and wants to search using the name of the security?

The YH Finance API provides us with an endpoint that gives us basic information about any security using its name. The base URL of this endpoint is `https://yfapi.net/v6/finance/autocomplete`.



Learn to get information about securities using their names.

Introduction

Securities

Markets

API Integration in Django

Conclusion

Appendix

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