Introduction to the pandas_reader module

Via this module, users can download various economics and financial via Yahoo! Finance, Google Finance, Federal Reserve Economics Data (FRED), and Fama-French factors.

Assume that the pandas_reader module is installed. For detail on how to install this module, see the How to install a Python module section. First, let's look at the simplest example, just two lines to get IBM's trading data; see the following:

import pandas_datareader.data as web
df=web.get_data_google("ibm")

We could use a dot head and dot tail to show part of the results; see the following code:

>>> df.head()
>>> 
                  Open        High         Low       Close   Volume  
Date                                                                  
2010-01-04  131.179993  132.970001  130.850006  132.449997  6155300   
2010-01-05  131.679993  131.850006  130.100006  130.850006  6841400   
2010-01-06  130.679993  131.490005  129.809998  130.000000...