About price-history
A command-line skill that fetches historical OHLCV data for a ticker from Yahoo Finance. It serves users reviewing price movements across selectable lookback periods and intervals, and returns records as JSON.
Key features
- 01Fetches historical OHLCV data
- 02Supports selectable periods and intervals
- 03Returns dated price and volume records
- 04Includes New York timestamps in JSON
Use cases
- 01Review a ticker's historical price trend
- 02Inspect daily or intraday price and volume data
Install
Copy the command and run it in a terminal.
npx skills add https:/ / github.com/ staskh/ trading_skills --skill price-historyAfter installing, type/price-historyin Claude Code to confirm it loaded.
Bundled filesscripts/history.py
Details
From the project READMEPrice History
Fetch historical OHLCV data from Yahoo Finance.
Instructions
Note: If
uvis not installed orpyproject.tomlis not found, replaceuv run pythonwithpythonin all commands below.
uv run python scripts/history.py SYMBOL [--period PERIOD] [--interval INTERVAL]
Arguments
SYMBOL- Ticker symbol--period- Time period: 1d, 5d, 1mo, 3mo, 6mo, 1y, 2y, 5y, 10y, ytd, max (default: 1mo)--interval- Data interval: 1m, 2m, 5m, 15m, 30m, 60m, 90m, 1h, 1d, 5d, 1wk, 1mo (default: 1d)
Output
Returns JSON with:
symbol- Tickerperiod- Requested periodinterval- Data intervaldata- Array of {date, open, high, low, close, volume}
Summarize key price movements, highs/lows, and trends.
Dependencies
yfinance
Timezone
All timestamps and time-based calculations must use the America/New_York timezone. All JSON output must include generated_at (NY time string) and data_delay fields.