Download history stock prices automatically from yahoo finance in python

Question

Is there a way to automatically download historical prices of stocks from yahoo finance or google finance (csv format)? Preferably in Python.

Answer 1

It's trivial when you know how:

import yfinance as yf
df = yf.download('CVS', '2015-01-01')
df.to_csv('cvs-health-corp.csv')

If you wish to plot it:

import finplot as fplt
fplt.candlestick_ochl(df[['Open','Close','High','Low']])
fplt.show()