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Knowledge Base | How to Export Historical Stock Prices from Google Finance to CSV How to Export Historical Stock Prices from Google Finance to CSVUpdated: August 28, 2019 This article is archived. Google stopped publishing finance data via API in 2018. You have free alternatives: MSN Money and Yahoo Finance. If you are looking for historical stock prices in Microsoft Excel, try Market RTD. Download Market RTD You will find workbook samples that show how to load historical and intraday prices, financial data and statistics, US stock options. If you are looking for CSV data, you can read these articles: Contents Historical Prices at Google FinanceYou can open https://www.google.com/finance/, search a ticker like GOOGL, and click the 'Historical prices' link on the left panel. You can use URLs like https://www.google.com/finance/historical?q=GOOGL to open pages with historical prices directly. You can download the historical prices to a CSV file using the 'Download to spreadsheet' link on the right panel. You can download data for the required selected period. You can download historical prices from Google Finance with download utilities using URLs like this: ?q=GOOGL&output=csv You can use any free tool like CURL to download data. We recommend you try gsqlcmd, a specialized download and parser utility. For example, you can download data using the command like this: gsqlcmd convert "?q=GOOGL&output=csv" googl.csv /add=Symb=GOOGL /quoteChar=gsqlcmd has special useful options like /add and /quoteChar to convert loaded data. For example, the source data look like this: Date,Open,High,Low,Close,Volume 19-May-17,952.82,959.56,952.00,954.65,1360299 18-May-17,943.20,954.18,941.27,950.50,1800465 17-May-17,959.70,960.99,940.06,942.17,2449058The result of gsqlcmd looks like this: Symb;Date;Open;High;Low;Close;Volume GOOGL;2017-05-19;952.82;959.56;952;954.65;1360299 GOOGL;2017-05-18;943.2;954.18;941.27;950.5;1800465 GOOGL;2017-05-17;959.7;960.99;940.06;942.17;2449058So, you can get CSV data suitable for further import to a database without additional conversions. Loading Historical Prices from Google Finance with Batch FilesYou can create a simple batch file to load historical prices for a list of tickers with any command line download utility. Create a text file like 'tickers.txt' and place tickers one by line like: TICKERS.TXT AAPL FB GOOGLCreate a batch file like 'load.cmd' with the following commands: LOAD.CMD @echo off @for /F %%i in (tickers.txt) do ( gsqlcmd convert "?q=%%i&output=csv" %%i.CSV ^ /add=Symb=%%i /quoteChar= /delay=200 /echoOutputFileName )Run it. You will see the result: C:>load.cmd AAPL.CSV - 251 rows FB.CSV - 251 rows GOOGL.CSV - 251 rowsPay attention to the /delay parameter. Use the delay to avoid banning your IP due to frequent multiple automatic requests. Undocumented URLs to Download Historical Prices from Google FinanceGoogle has an undocumented web service that returns historical and intraday prices in a specific text format. You can download data. However, you need a special parser to convert results to CSV. URLs for daily and weekly historical prices: ?q=GOOGL&i=86400&p=1Y&f=d,c,v,o,h,l ?q=GOOGL&i=604800&p=10Y&f=d,c,v,k,o,h,lURLs for 1, 5, 15, 30, and 60-minute intraday prices: ?q=GOOGL&i=60&p=1d&f=d,c,v,o,h,l ?q=GOOGL&i=300&p=5d&f=d,c,v,o,h,l ?q=GOOGL&i=900&p=5d&f=d,c,v,o,h,l ?q=GOOGL&i=1800&p=30d&f=d,c,v,o,h,l ?q=GOOGL&i=3600&p=30d&f=d,c,v,o,h,lDownloads Products for Traders and Investorsgsqlcmd This tool downloads, converts, and imports data from Yahoo Finance and MSN Money Disclaimer Google Finance is a logo and registered trademark of Google Inc. (责任编辑：) |