YFinance_Can't get data from dictionary_Python_Jupyter notebook

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This is my first experience in Python and Stackoverflow 🙂
I try to update my xls file with Portfolio using Yfinance.
I’m interested in two parameters on each stock : current price and sector.
I try to update my Pandas DataFrame using the code below.
It works fine for the "Price" but I can’t extract "Sector" – get an error below.

What I’m doing wrong here?

Well, there is a "sector" key in the dictionary for each stock. I try to update the Excel file, so there isn’t much code

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KeyError                                  Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[271], line 7
      5 stock_info = yf.Ticker(ticker).info
      6 price = stock_info['regularMarketPrice']
----> 7 sector = str(stock_info['sector'])
      8 ibkr.loc[i, ['Price of share']] = price
      9 ibkr.loc[i, ['Sector']] = sector

KeyError: 'sector'

The code:

import yfinance as yf
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np <br/>  ibkr = pd.read_excel("BKR_WISHLIST.xlsx") <br/> ibkr.columns = ['Company_name', 'Symbol', 'Number of shares', 'Price of share', 'Total_value_share, USD'] <br/> ibkr.dropna(subset=['Total_value_share, USD', 'Number of shares'], inplace=True) <br/> ibkr.insert(2, "Sector", "XXX") <br/> ibkr.reset_index(drop = True, inplace = True) <br/>  my_tickers = ibkr["Symbol"].tolist()
tickers = yf.Tickers(my_tickers)
# i = 0
for ticker in my_tickers:
    stock_info = yf.Ticker(ticker).info
    # price = stock_info['regularMarketPrice']
    # sector = stock_info['sector']
    ibkr.loc[i, 'Price of share'] = stock_info['regularMarketPrice']
    #ibkr.loc[i, 'Sector'] = stock_info["sector"]
    i += 1

    my_tickers = ibkr["Symbol"].tolist()
tickers = yf.Tickers(my_tickers)
i = 0
for ticker in my_tickers:
    stock_info = yf.Ticker(ticker).info
    price = stock_info['regularMarketPrice']
    sector = stock_info['sector']
    ibkr.loc[i, ['Price of share']] = price
    ibkr.loc[i, ['Sector']] = sector
    i = I+1

Asked By: Alef

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Answer 1

There might be a problem with the value in the sector that’s why KeyError is raised because the value is not found in some case you can handle with loop

for ticker in my_tickers:
    stock_info = yf.Ticker(ticker).info
    ibkr.loc[i, "Sector"] = stock_info["sector"]  
    if stock_info["sector"] is None or stock_info["sector"] == "":
        ibkr.loc[i, "Sector"] = "NA"
    ibkr.loc[i, "Price"] = stock_info["regularMarketPrice"]
    i += 1

Answered By: twister_void

Answer 2

The stock_info object does not have a sector key:
For example,

yf.Ticker('MSFT').info

returns

{'regularMarketPrice': None, 'preMarketPrice': None, 'logo_url': ''}

It looks like it might have had sector at one point (e.g.: How to get Industry Data from Yahoo Finance using Python?), but it may be that Yahoo Finance no longer publishes these data.

Answered By: Damian Satterthwaite-Phillips

Answer 3

Thank you guys for your help!
I don’t know how to @ you here, but I hope you will this post.

The problem was that the stock_info for some objects (ETF) did not have a "sector" key.
So with help of @Damian Satterthwaite-Phillips and @twister_void this code did work:

my_tickers = ibkr["Symbol"].tolist()
tickers = yf.Tickers(my_tickers)
i = 0
for ticker in my_tickers:
    stock_info = yf.Ticker(ticker).info
    ibkr.loc[i, 'Sector'] = stock_info.get('sector', 'NA')
    ibkr.loc[i, "Price of share"] = stock_info["regularMarketPrice"]
    i += 1

Answered By: Alef

Answer 4

The API seems to be broken. I have tried upgrading yfinance from 1.86 all the way up to 2.x. Whether I put in a stock ticker or a fund ticker or ETF, I only get back the 3 keys: {‘regularMarketPrice’: None, ‘preMarketPrice’: None, ‘logo_url’: ”}. I don’t think this is a "sector" problem at all… it seems more like a Yahoo problem… noworky.

Answered By: Steven Daigle

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