Yoghurt

Yahoo!-Originated Graphs, Histories, Updates, Returns & Tickers.

Yoghurt brings Yahoo Finance's HTTP endpoints to the command line. It is built for scripts, agents, and quick terminal work that needs the JSON returned by Yahoo's finance endpoints.

The project stays deliberately close to the source. It does not reshape Yahoo responses, define finance domain models, or add a discovery API beyond CLI help.

Features

• Raw Yahoo Finance JSON on stdout, with no pretty-printing or interpretation.
• Endpoint-specific commands for common Yahoo Finance data.
• A SQL-flavored DSL (screener, visualization) for ad-hoc filters and cross-entity queries against Yahoo's data-platform endpoints.
• Generated help that includes examples, parameters, field references, modules, or types when Yoghurt knows them.
• Reusable Yahoo session cache for faster one-shot CLI calls.
• A raw command for Yahoo query paths that do not have dedicated metadata yet.

Install From Source

Yoghurt is currently intended to run from a local checkout. It is a Python 3.10+ project managed with uv.

uv sync --all-groups

Run the CLI from the repository:

uv run yoghurt --help

Or install it as a package from a local checkout:

uv tool install .
yoghurt --help

Quick Start

Fetch quotes for a few symbols:

uv run yoghurt quote AAPL,MSFT,NVDA

Request specific quote fields:

uv run yoghurt quote AAPL,MSFT --fields symbol,longName,companyLogoUrl,regularMarketPrice,overnightMarketPrice

See QUOTE_FIELDS.md for the full quote field reference and best-effort meanings.

Fetch selected quote summary modules:

uv run yoghurt quote-summary ^GSPC --modules price,summaryDetail,pageViews,financialsTemplate

See QUOTE_SUMMARY_MODULES.md for the researched quote-summary module list and descriptions.

Fetch quote-type metadata using Yahoo's path-symbol endpoint:

uv run yoghurt quote-type ^GSPC

Fetch chart data for a recent window:

uv run yoghurt chart AAPL

Fetch quote-page sparkline data:

uv run yoghurt spark AAPL,MSFT

Quote-page probes have observed 1d and 24h spark ranges; pass values such as --range 24h through when Yahoo supports them.

Fetch recommended symbols for a quote page:

uv run yoghurt recommendations-by-symbol AAPL

Fetch Yahoo calendar events:

uv run yoghurt calendar-events AAPL
uv run yoghurt calendar-events AAPL --modules ipoEvents
uv run yoghurt calendar-events AAPL --modules secReports
uv run yoghurt calendar-events AAPL --modules economicEvents --include-all-economic-events

Confirmed --modules values for calendar-events:

Module	Returns
earnings	Upcoming and recent earnings dates and EPS estimates (default).
economicEvents	Macro economic calendar events (CPI, Fed decisions, employment reports, etc.).
ipoEvents	Upcoming and recent IPO events.
secReports	Recent SEC filing events (10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, etc.).

Fetch sector data:

uv run yoghurt sector technology
uv run yoghurt sector financial-services --with-returns

Confirmed sector slugs: technology, financial-services, consumer-cyclical, communication-services, healthcare, industrials, consumer-defensive, energy, basic-materials, real-estate, utilities.

Run a predefined Yahoo screener:

uv run yoghurt screener-predefined MOST_ACTIVES
uv run yoghurt screener-predefined DAY_GAINERS_CRYPTOCURRENCIES
uv run yoghurt screener-predefined TOP_OPTIONS_OPEN_INTEREST

Confirmed predefined screener IDs:

Equities — movers and volume MOST_ACTIVES, MOST_ACTIVE_PENNY_STOCKS, UNUSUAL_VOLUME_STOCKS, DAY_GAINERS, DAY_LOSERS, MOST_SHORTED_STOCKS

Equities — size and price SMALL_CAP_STOCKS, LARGE_CAP_STOCKS, MOST_EXPENSIVE_STOCKS, HIGHEST_BETA_STOCKS, PINK_SHEET_STOCKS, SMALL_CAP_GAINERS

Equities — technical signals RECENT_52_WEEK_HIGHS, RECENT_52_WEEK_LOWS, BULLISH_STOCKS_RIGHT_NOW, BEARISH_STOCKS_RIGHT_NOW

Equities — analyst and value ANALYST_STRONG_BUY_STOCKS, MORNINGSTAR_FIVE_STAR_STOCKS, UNDERVALUED_GROWTH_STOCKS, UNDERVALUED_LARGE_CAPS, UNDERVALUED_WIDE_MOAT_STOCKS, GROWTH_TECHNOLOGY_STOCKS, AGGRESSIVE_SMALL_CAPS, HIGHEST_DIVIDEND_STOCKS

Equities — institutional MOST_INSTITUTIONALLY_BOUGHT_LARGE_CAP_STOCKS, MOST_INSTITUTIONALLY_HELD_LARGE_CAP_STOCKS, TOP_STOCKS_OWNED_BY_CATHIE_WOOD

Funds and ETFs TOP_MUTUAL_FUNDS, SOLID_LARGE_GROWTH_FUNDS, SOLID_MIDCAP_GROWTH_FUNDS, CONSERVATIVE_FOREIGN_FUNDS, HIGH_YIELD_BOND, LARGE_BLEND_ETFS, TECHNOLOGY_ETFS, PORTFOLIO_ANCHORS

Crypto MOST_ACTIVES_CRYPTOCURRENCIES, DAY_GAINERS_CRYPTOCURRENCIES, DAY_LOSERS_CRYPTOCURRENCIES

Private companies 52_WEEK_GAINERS_PRIVATE_COMPANY, RECENTLY_FUNDED_PRIVATE_COMPANY

Options DAY_GAINERS_OPTIONS, DAY_LOSERS_OPTIONS, TOP_OPTIONS_OPEN_INTEREST, TOP_OPTIONS_IMPLIED_VOLATALITY (Yahoo typo)

Fetch an option chain using Yahoo's default expiration:

uv run yoghurt options AAPL

Fetch current market session status and trading hours:

uv run yoghurt market-time

Fetch analyst intelligence for a symbol (put/call ratio, news summary, price targets, and ratings):

uv run yoghurt analyst AAPL

Run a custom screener or cross-entity query with the SQL-flavored DSL:

uv run yoghurt screener --query "
  SELECT ticker, intradaymarketcap, sector, peratio.lasttwelvemonths
  FROM EQUITY
  WHERE region = 'us'
    AND sector = 'Technology'
    AND intradaymarketcap >= 10e9
  ORDER BY intradaymarketcap DESC
  LIMIT 25"

uv run yoghurt visualization --query "
  SELECT ticker, transactiondate, shares
  FROM INSIDER_TRANSACTION
  WHERE ticker = 'AAPL'
  ORDER BY transactiondate DESC
  LIMIT 50"

List the fields, types, and operators available for a given asset class or entity (e.g. for use in a screener or visualization query):

uv run yoghurt screener-instrument-fields equity
uv run yoghurt screener-instrument-fields insider_transaction

See QUERY_DSL.md for the full DSL reference: grammar, operators, entity routing, body shape, premium-locked entities, and more examples.

Pass through a Yahoo query path directly:

uv run yoghurt raw /v7/finance/quote --param symbols=AAPL,MSFT --param formatted=true

Parquet output

chart, screener, and visualization can write a typed Parquet table instead of raw JSON. Install with the parquet extra to pull in pyarrow:

uv sync --extra parquet

Then pass --format parquet --out PATH:

uv run yoghurt chart AAPL --interval 1d --format parquet --out aapl_1d.parquet
uv run yoghurt screener --query "SELECT ticker, intradaymarketcap FROM EQUITY \
  WHERE region = 'us' AND sector = 'Technology' ORDER BY intradaymarketcap DESC LIMIT 50" \
  --format parquet --out tech.parquet
uv run yoghurt visualization --query "SELECT ticker, startdatetime FROM sp_earnings \
  WHERE region = 'us' AND startdatetime BETWEEN '2026-05-09' AND '2026-05-16' LIMIT 25" \
  --format parquet --out earnings.parquet

On success a single JSON descriptor line goes to stdout (the file format, out path, row count, byte size). Parquet writes are scoped to these three intrinsically tabular commands; every other command stays JSON-only. The chart schema is fixed (ts, open, high, low, close, volume, adj_close); screener and visualization tables are inferred from the response. AGGREGATE visualization queries cannot be flattened and are rejected — use --format json for those. Parquet requires scalar cells, so --format parquet --formatted is rejected.

Screener column names

For the screener route, Parquet column names mirror Yahoo's response record keys, not the names in your SELECT clause. Yahoo translates many DSL filter names (lowercase, dotted) to camelCase keys with suffixes like Ltm or Percent. For example, SELECT intradaymarketcap produces a Parquet column named marketCap, and responses often include unrequested columns such as logoUrl. See docs/screener-fields.md for the mapping table.

The visualization route preserves SELECT-clause names verbatim, so its Parquet schema matches what you asked for.

Commands

Use root help to see the command list:

uv run yoghurt --help

Current commands, grouped roughly by how often they're reached for:

Daily-driver fetches

Command	Yahoo data
quote	Fetch quotes for one or more symbols.
chart	Fetch historical OHLC chart data for a symbol.
options	Fetch the option chain for a symbol.
quote-summary	Fetch quoteSummary modules for a symbol.
quote-type	Fetch instrument classification metadata for a symbol.
spark	Fetch sparkline price series for one or more symbols.

Discovery (find symbols, build custom queries)

Command	Yahoo data
screener-predefined	Run one or more of Yahoo's predefined screeners.
visualization	Query any Yahoo data-platform entity via a SQL-flavored DSL.
screener	Query any Yahoo asset class via a SQL-flavored DSL.
screener-discover	Discover investment ideas from Yahoo screener modules.

Symbol-bound analysis

Command	Yahoo data
timeseries	Fetch fundamentals timeseries for a symbol.
calendar-events	Fetch earnings, IPO, economic, and SEC filing events for a symbol.
analyst	Fetch analyst intelligence for a symbol.
ratings-top	Fetch top analyst rating buckets for a symbol.
recommendations-by-symbol	Fetch related-symbol recommendations for a symbol.
price-insights	Fetch AI-generated price insights for one or more symbols.
insights	Fetch research reports and insights for one or more symbols.

Market-wide state

Command	Yahoo data
trending	List trending tickers for a region.
sector	Fetch sector overview, performance, top holdings, and industries.
market-summary	Fetch global market summary: indices, futures, forex, crypto.
market-info	Fetch commodity and currency market data.
market-time	Show current market hours and session status.

Schema introspection

Command	Yahoo data
screener-instrument-fields	List every field available for a Yahoo data-platform entity.
timeseries-fields	List available fundamentals timeseries field names for a type.

Escape hatch

Command	Yahoo data
raw	Send raw parameters to any Yahoo query path.

Each endpoint has its own adaptive help:

uv run yoghurt quote --help
uv run yoghurt quote-summary --help
uv run yoghurt calendar-events --help
uv run yoghurt timeseries --help

Endpoint help is the primary documentation surface. It shows Yahoo's target endpoint, accepted parameters, defaults, examples, and common open-ended values where available.

Chart

The chart command calls Yahoo's /v8/finance/chart/{symbol} endpoint without requesting a crumb:

uv run yoghurt chart AAPL

When period arguments are omitted, Yoghurt uses a recent quote-page-shaped window: period1 defaults to three days before execution time, period2 defaults to execution time, --interval defaults to 1m, and --events defaults to div,split,earn. User-provided events are comma-separated; Yoghurt packs them for Yahoo internally. Extended-hours data is opt-in with --include-pre-post.

Timeseries

The timeseries command can also run with only a ticker:

uv run yoghurt timeseries AAPL

Its default type list matches the Yahoo quote/analysis page request for earnings-release, analyst-rating, and economic-event timeseries data. When period arguments are omitted, Yoghurt uses a recent quote-page-style window: period1 defaults to three days before execution time and period2 defaults to execution time.

See TIMESERIES_TYPES.md for the observed --type reference with descriptions.

Dates and Booleans

Date and datetime parameters accept:

• Unix timestamps, such as 1510876800.
• Date-only values, such as 2017-11-17.
• ISO datetime values.

Date-only values are converted at UTC midnight before they are sent to Yahoo. For endpoints with period1 and period2, documented defaults let ticker-only requests run, period2 defaults to the current Unix timestamp when omitted, and Yoghurt rejects windows where period2 is not greater than period1. Supplying period2 without period1 is also rejected.

Boolean parameters accept common true and false forms such as true, false, 1, 0, yes, and no.

Session Cache

Most Yahoo endpoints require a cookie and crumb. Yoghurt establishes that session state automatically and caches it for reuse across CLI calls.

Useful global options:

uv run yoghurt --refresh-session quote AAPL
uv run yoghurt --no-session-cache quote AAPL
uv run yoghurt --session-cache C:\tmp\yoghurt-session.json quote AAPL

Yoghurt never prints cookies, crumbs, or full session-cache contents.

Output Contract

Yoghurt writes the Yahoo response body to stdout exactly as returned. This makes it easy to pipe into tools that expect JSON:

uv run yoghurt quote AAPL | jq .

Diagnostics and errors are written to stderr.

Development

Install development dependencies:

uv sync --all-groups

Run the test suite:

uv run pytest

Run checks locally:

uv run black --check .
uv run ruff format --check --diff .
uv run ruff check .
uv run pyright
uv run pytest -n auto

Run the full project check, including Python checks and spelling:

uv run tox

When adding or changing command metadata, update validation, adaptive help, and tests together. Then verify the relevant command against Yahoo with its help, minimal required parameters, and representative optional parameters.

License

Yoghurt is released under the MIT License. See LICENSE.