Importing stock price from Yahoo Finance in Google sheets - google-sheets

Question

I'm trying to import some Singapore stock prices from Yahoo finance in my Google sheets. I am using the code
=IMPORTXML("https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/" & A2,"//*[#id='quote-header-info']/div[3]/div[1]/div/span[1]")
and put the ticker in A2. It works for some SGX stocks but not the others. Applying to STI constituents, I got something like
Ticker
Price
D05.SI
28.4
O39.SI
11.61
U11.SI
#N/A
Z74.SI
2.41
J36.SI
#N/A
A17U.SI
3.05
C38U.SI
#N/A
Y92.SI
#N/A
S68.SI
#N/A
C31.SI
3.75
...
...
I have checked that for U11.SI and J36.SI, the XPATH of the price element is the same as for D05.SI. Below is the link to the Google sheet
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Tp9leC43J1W3Jun3Z23K51zmbkZRhPOcM60ffBPOs90/edit?usp=sharing
Could anyone shed some light on what's going wrong here? Thanks!

Answer 1

You can pull in data from Yahoo Finance quite easily using Google Apps Script. In the Apps script, you can define a function to retrieve data from any web page and then parse the HTML output.
function yahooF() {
const ticker = 'AAPL';
const url = `https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/${ticker}?p=${ticker}`;
const res = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url, {muteHttpExceptions: true});
const contentText = res.getContentText();
const price = contentText.match(/<fin-streamer(?:.*?)data-test="qsp-price"(?:.*)>(\d+\.\d+)<\/fin-streamer>/);
console.log(price[1]);
return price[1];
}
In the above snippet, Yahoo Finance's page on Apple's stock is retrieved using UrlFetchApp. The price of the ticker is then extracted using regex and one can get Apple's stock price in a Google sheet by using the defined =yahooF() function.
I explained this more in-depth in an article on Medium.