def get_stock_price(symbol):
"""get a stock price from yahoo finance"""
import requests
import json
url = "https://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v7/finance/quote?symbols=" + symbol
response = requests.get(url)
data = json.loads(response.text)
return data['quoteResponse']['result'][0]['regularMarketPrice']
print(get_stock_price('AAPL'))
I’m getting an error message says
Exception has occurred: JSONDecodeError
Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Can someone please help to fix the error message?
>Solution :
You would need to pass some user-agent script in header to get this working. Please see below:
import requests
import json
def get_stock_price(symbol):
"""get a stock price from yahoo finance"""
url = "https://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v7/finance/quote?symbols=" + symbol
headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'}
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
data = json.loads(response.text)
return data['quoteResponse']['result'][0]['regularMarketPrice']
print(get_stock_price('AAPL'))