Overview
A Flutter/Dart package that fetches daily stock prices from Yahoo Finance, enabling developers to access historical market data for building backtesting tools and financial analysis applications. It supports multiple platforms including Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, and Linux, making it versatile for cross-platform use. The package simplifies integration with Yahoo Finance's public API, allowing seamless retrieval of comprehensive historical price data for stocks and other financial instruments.
Use cases
- Backtesting trading strategies
- Building financial dashboards
- Analyzing historical stock trends
- Developing investment research tools
- Creating portfolio tracking apps
Key features
- Fetches daily historical stock prices
- Supports cross-platform deployment
- Simple API for data retrieval
- Integrates with Yahoo Finance
- Enables real-time and historical data access
Suitable for
- Financial app developers
- Quantitative analysts
- Trading strategy builders
- Data-driven investment tools
- Flutter projects requiring market data
Considerations
- Depends on external Yahoo Finance API stability
- Limited to daily granularity
- Requires internet connection
- May have rate limits
- Data accuracy depends on Yahoo Finance source