A very simple and untested function for scraping stock info from Yahoo Finance. Built on Axios/Cheerio.
The function is called with
getStockInfo(ticker, exchange)For example...
getStockInfo("TD", "TO")returns an object like...
{
'Previous Close': '82.12',
'Open': '82.29',
'Bid': '82.80 x 0',
'Ask': '82.92 x 0',
"Day's Range": '82.29 - 82.91',
'52 Week Range': '53.19 - 83.65',
'Volume': '2,377,810',
'Avg. Volume': '6,491,351',
'Market Cap': '150.715B',
'Beta (5Y Monthly)': '0.87',
'PE Ratio (TTM)': '12.57',
'EPS (TTM)': '6.59',
'Earnings Date': 'May 27, 2021',
'Forward Dividend & Yield': '3.16 (3.81%)',
'Ex-Dividend Date': 'Apr. 08, 2021',
'1y Target Est': '82.38',
'holders': {
'% of Shares Held by All Insider': '0.05%',
'% of Shares Held by Institutions': '56.11%',
'% of Float Held by Institutions': '56.14%',
'Number of Institutions Holding Shares': '883'
}
}The property "% of Shares Held by All Insider" can be returned using the method insiders() method.
getStockInfo("TD", "TO").insiders()which returns...
"0.05%"