Downloading stock market data for Apple

There are many resources for downloading stock market data for Apple. For our purposes, we will be using the Yahoo! Finance website.

Getting ready

This section will require initializing a Spark cluster that will be used for all recipes in this chapter. A Spark notebook can be initialized in the terminal using sparknotebook, as seen in the following screenshot:

A SparkSession can be initialized in a Jupyter notebook using the following script:

spark = SparkSession.builder \
    .master("local") \
    .appName("StockMarket") \
    .config("spark.executor.memory", "6gb") \
    .getOrCreate()

How to do it...

The following section walks through the steps for downloading historical stock market data for Apple.

1. Visit the following website to track the daily historical adjusted closing stock value for Apple, which has a stock ticker value of AAPL: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL/history
2. Set and apply the following parameters to the Historical Data tab:
   1. Time Period...