A Comprehensive Guide to Fetching S&P 500 Financial Data

Download and Scrape Financial Data from Various Sources

Jeremy Zhang
DataDrivenInvestor
Published in
6 min readJan 22, 2024

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I’ve long been interested in downloading historical financial data for stocks to conduct offline analysis, develop algorithms, and perform backtesting. This includes gathering comprehensive historical data such as Price-to-Earnings (P/E) and Price-to-Book (P/B) ratios for specific companies. However, I discovered that finding clear and reliable information online was quite challenging, and it took considerable effort to acquire both…

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