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Importing Finance Data with Python from Free Web Sources

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  • Updated 10/2025
4.5
(417 Ratings)
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Course Information

Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
8 Hour(s) 28 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Alexander Hagmann
Rating
4.5
(417 Ratings)

Course Overview

Importing Finance Data with Python from Free Web Sources

Get Historical Prices, Fundamentals, Metrics/Ratios etc. for thousands of Stocks, Bonds, Indexes, (Crypto-) Currencies

What can be the most critical and most expensive part when working with financial data?

Pandas coding? Creating some advanced Algorithms to analyse and optimize portfolios? Building solutions for Algorithmic Trading and Robo Advising? Maybe! But very often it is … getting the Data!

Financial Data is scarce and Premium Data Providers typically charge $20,000 p.a. and more! 


However, in 95% of all cases where Finance Professionals or Researchers require Financial Data, it can actually be obtained from Free or low-priced web sources. Some of them provide powerful APIs and Python wrapper packages, which makes it easy and comfortable to import the data with and into Python. 


+++ This course shows you how to get massive amounts of Financial Data from the web and provides downloadable Python coding templates (Jupyter Notebooks) for your convenience! +++   


This course covers four different data sources and explains in detail how to install required Libraries and how to download and import the data with few lines of Python Code. You will have access to

  • 60+ Exchanges all around the world

  • 120,000+ Symbols/Instruments

  • Historical Price and Volume Data for thousands of Stocks, Indexes, Mutual Funds and ETFs

  • Foreign Exchange (FOREX): 150+ Physical Currencies / Currency Pairs

  • 500+ Digital- / Cryptocurrencies

  • Fundamentals, Ratings, Historical Prices and Yields for Corporate Bonds

  • Commodities (Crude Oil, Gold, Silver, etc.)

  • Stock Options for 4,500 US Stocks

  • Fundamentals, Metrics and Ratios for thousands of Stocks, Indexes, Mutual Funds and ETFs

  • Balance Sheets

  • Profit and Loss Statements (P&L)

  • Cashflow Statements

  • 50+ Technical Indicators (e.g. SMA, Bollinger Bands)

  • Real-time and Historical Data (back to 1960s)

  • Streaming high-frequency real-time Data

  • Stock Splits and Dividends and how these are reflected in Stock Prices

  • Learn how Stock Prices are adjusted for Stock Splits and Dividends...

  • … and use appropriately adjusted data for your tasks! (avoid the Pitfalls!)   

  • Build your own Financial Databases...

… And save thousands of USDs!


What are you waiting for? As always, I provide a 30-Days-Money-Back Guarantee. So, there is no risk for you!

Looking forward to seeing you in the course!

Course Content

  • 9 section(s)
  • 99 lecture(s)
  • Section 1 Getting Started
  • Section 2 Importing Financial Data from Web Source 1
  • Section 3 Importing Financial Data from Web Source 2
  • Section 4 Importing Financial Data from Web Source 3
  • Section 5 Web Source 3b (for US and Canadian Residents)
  • Section 6 Importing Financial Data from Web Source 4
  • Section 7 Installing Python and Download/Working with Templates
  • Section 8 Appendix: Pandas Crash Course
  • Section 9 What´s next? (outlook and additional resources)

What You’ll Learn

  • Importing free / low-priced Financial Data from the Web with Python
  • Installing the required Libraries and Packages
  • Working with powerful APIs and Python wrapper packages
  • Downloading Historical Prices and Fundamentals for thousands of Stocks, Indexes, Mutual Funds and ETF´s
  • Downloading Historical Prices for Currencies (FOREX), Cryptocurrencies, Bonds & more
  • Saving / Storing the Data locally
  • Pandas Coding Crash Course


Reviews

  • S
    Sze Shun CHEUNG
    5.0

    Very good. If with noted to download which will be much better

  • H
    Hugo Merkens
    4.0

    Good overview of different sources. It misses some depth (it would be nice to show how apply this in strategies) and NLP is a nice thing to add too. But best source so far that cover different data sources

  • L
    Luis Victor Barros
    4.0

    A nice course, it helped me a lot, should be more updated and much of the API covered here are paid.

  • D
    Dennis Heisler
    3.0

    Most of the explanations are superficial. Observations about free sources - Yahoo and Alpha Vantage are free and seem fairly complete. FXCM is free to set up demo account, but excludes US and Canada. Oanda works only in US and Canada. eodhistoricaldata is paid service. It would have been better to focus on Yahoo and Alpha and go into more detail.

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