Web Scraping Code to extract stock price

Question

I am creating a web scrapping python code (using 2.7.11) that extracts the stock price using symbol. I am not sure why this is not working. But it gives me this output:

Answer 1

The string "yfs_l84" you are searching for is not contained in the HTML returned by yahoo. So

where=text.find("yfs_l84")

leaves where to be -1. So your slice text[start:end] will always be text[6:11] and cut YPR h out of the page source:

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