Stock Snapshot Scraper

Enter a ticker symbol to fetch basic data scraped from Yahoo Finance.

About This Project

The Stock Snapshot Scraper is a lightweight Flask application that fetches real-time market data directly from Yahoo Finance. The tool demonstrates how web scraping, HTML parsing, and dynamic templates can be combined to extract and present financial data in a clean, user-friendly interface.

The project’s goal is to provide a simple but extensible foundation for more advanced tools, such as integrating with APIs, caching results, or adding historical charts and performance analytics. While using the yfinance API would be more efficient for production use, this is specifically an exercise in web scraping techniques.

Built with Python, Flask, BeautifulSoup, and Bootstrap.