Scrape Yahoo Finance Financial Ratios

Question

I have been trying to scrap the value of the Current Ratio (as shown below) from Yahoo Finance using Beautiful Soup, but it keeps returning an empty value.

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Answer 1

One thing I'd add to Padriac's answer is to except KeyErrors, since you'll probably be scraping more than one ticker.

import requests
a = requests.get('https://query2.finance.yahoo.com/v10/finance/quoteSummary/GSB?formatted=true&crumb=A7e5%2FXKKAFa&lang=en-US®ion=US&modules=defaultKeyStatistics%2CfinancialData%2CcalendarEvents&corsDomain=finance.yahoo.com')
b = a.json()
try:
    ratio = b['quoteSummary']['result'][0]['financialData']['currentRatio']['raw']
    print(ratio) #prints 1.974
except (IndexError, KeyError):
    pass

A cool thing about doing it like this is that you can easily change the keys for the information you want. A good way to see the way the dictionary is nested on the Yahoo! Finance pages is to use pprint. Furthermore, for the pages that have quarterly information just change [0] to [1] to get the info for the second quarter instead of the first.. and so on and so forth.