Sunday, January 9, 2011

Yahoo Options Data web scraper in matlab

I use Yahoo Option Chains Data to quickly check on the Option prices. I wrote a web scraper that conveniently fetches the Yahoo Option Chain Data into matlab. I hope it will be useful for some people.

UPDATE : I have edited the link below. It seems like the link was blocked for some reason.

Thanks

36 comments:

Anonymous said...

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Jiong said...

Hi TRADINGWITHMATLAB,

Thanks for sharing. It is very useful.

But sometimes for option strategy backtesting, we want the historical price of a certain option. Do you have any idea how to get the historical price of an option from Yahoo or other source (like IB), just like what we get for stocks? This question puzzled me for a while.

Thanks a lot!

Jiong

Carly Fiorina said...

Hello,

Really it is very useful information for me, Please provide more details about it. Thanks...

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Anonymous said...

Hey, very interesting......

Do you have this in python... I dont have MATLAB.

Alec Jeffery said...

Extremely useful! I've incorporated it to a volatility surface plotter, would you care to have that? I might publish it to the user exchange, but I'd like your approval first because you wrote a large part of the code.

Anonymous said...

The link to your m file seems broken, is it down permanently?

Anonymous said...

Yes, the link doesn't seem to work anymore. Can you please upload your file again? Thanks a lot!

Anonymous said...

Hi,

The code is fantastic. There are no errors in data fetching. However, its the way Yahoo works that messes up everything. For example on Friday, June 26, 2011, Yahoo says that an IBM option expires on say June 30, 2011. But if you look at the options symbols you will realize that it contains both, options that expire on June 30 and the ones that expire on July 14. That is why on a particular expiration, you can see two options with the same strike on yahoo. Just wanted to let you know. This had been a devilish for me and took me a long while to figure out.

Anonymous said...

Hi TradingwithMatlab,

Great blog.

The link to your m file seems broken, could you please restore it?
Thanks,
Shekhar

tracker77 said...

your link to the Matlab code is not available. Would it be possible to get an e-mailed copy?

thanks,

tracker77@gmail.com

Anonymous said...

Hello,

Can you post the matlab code for Get_Exp_Dates ?

Thanks a lot.

I like your blog very much.

david

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Anonymous said...

Nice piece of code

Anonymous said...

Thank you for this. Found it today and saved me a bunch of work.

Great blog, thanks for the useful information!

Erintrade said...

Thanks for sharing!

Anonymous said...

This is very cool code thanks for sharing it. When I tried using it on LVS as an example, I found that it fetched the first (front month) weekly options for LVS in January, then grabbed Feb monthlies, etc. In other words, it didn't retrieve the January monthly options, just skipped that series. Any ideas why the code does this? Thanks.

TradingwithMatlab said...

I didnt get the error. I am able to get all the option chains correctly.

TradingwithMatlab said...

I didnt get the error. I am able to get all the option chains correctly.

Unknown said...

Work well with all options except for 'spy' seems to hangup

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Anonymous said...

An updates? On several stocks (i.e. AMZN) there is an error in R2014a. Possibly due to so many strikes or how some stocks have weeklies?

Warning: Usage of DATENUM with empty date strings is not supported.
Results may change in future versions.
> In datenum at 83
In Get_Yahoo_Options_Data>Get_Exp_Dates at 104
In Get_Yahoo_Options_Data at 41
Index exceeds matrix dimensions.

Error in Get_Yahoo_Options_Data>@(x)[x(:,1),num2cell(str2double(x(:,[2:8]))),x(:,9),num2cell(str2double(x(:,10:end)))] (line 46)
f = @(x)[x(:,1) num2cell(str2double(x(:,[2:8]))) x(:,9) num2cell(str2double(x(:,10:end)))];

Error in Get_Yahoo_Options_Data (line 47)
DataOut.data = cellfun(f,DataOut.data,'uni',false);

Tal F said...

On October 23 Yahoo! changed their format for options chain tables in HTML, and the file posted here no longer works.

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