GET FREE FINANCIAL DATA W/ PYTHON (EARNINGS ESTIMATES-FROM YAHOO FINANCE)

Today I present a simple function to extract Earnings Estimates from Yahoo Finance. If you have any questions feel free to leave it in the comments.

This code uses Python 3 on Windows 8.1 but could be easily adapted for Python 2 by changing the 'urllib' import.

First we import the necessary packages into our programming environment.

I also suppress warnings for the deprecation warning for the Pandas "Dataframe.convert_objects()"method within the scraper function that follows.

This function takes the Yahoo Finance URL with our symbol of interest and uses BeautifulSoup to parse the resulting HTML. I also added some formatting code to clean up the readability of the headers.

Now let's test the function using the proper URL. I'm using the symbol 'SWKS' in this example.

Your output should appear like the following: