get_financial_stmts returns nothing

[eyalk5]

from yahoofinancials import YahooFinancials as YF tick = YF('MSFT') tick.get_financial_stmts('quarterly', 'balance')

In[8]: tick.get_financial_stmts('quarterly', 'balance') Out[8]: {'balanceSheetHistoryQuarterly': {'MSFT': None}}

[bluusun]

Same issue on Mac OSX, python3.7. Installation via pip3.

[eyalk5]

See solution here https://github.com/ranaroussi/yfinance/issues/291

[dalder1]

@eyalk5 could you explain how to implement this change for yahoofinancials. I do not see a base.py from yahoofinancials, where should I make the recommended changes.

[madis]

I patched it to use yfinance in Clojure via https://github.com/clj-python/libpython-clj but it'll work for Python too like this: You'll have to change the location of your yfinance module folder:

patch ~/anaconda3/envs/panthera/lib/python3.7/site-packages/yfinance/base.py < patches/yfinance_base.patch

The below code is stored in patches/yfinance_base.patch

--- a/yfinance/base.py
+++ b/yfinance/base.py
@@ -280,8 +280,8 @@ class TickerBase():
         data = utils.get_json(url, proxy)

         # holders
-        url = "{}/{}/holders".format(self._scrape_url, self.ticker)
-        holders = _pd.read_html(url)
+        urlH = "{}/{}/holders".format(self._scrape_url, self.ticker)
+        holders = _pd.read_html(urlH)
         self._major_holders = holders[0]
         self._institutional_holders = holders[1]
         if 'Date Reported' in self._institutional_holder

I'm not that familiar with python interpreter so I just restarted the REPL process and it worked after. Probably there are simpler ways to reload the code.

user=> (require-python '[yfinance :as yf :reload])
:ok
user=> (get-attr (yf/Ticker "MSFT") :financials)
                                         2019-06-30  2018-06-30  2017-06-30  2016-06-30
Research Development                     1.6876e+10  1.4726e+10  1.3037e+10  1.1988e+10
Effect Of Accounting Charges                   None        None        None        None
Income Before Tax                        4.3688e+10  3.6474e+10  2.9901e+10  2.5639e+10
Minority Interest                              None        None        None        None
Net Income                                3.924e+10  1.6571e+10  2.5489e+10  2.0539e+10
Selling General Administrative           2.3098e+10  2.2223e+10  1.9942e+10  1.9198e+10
Gross Profit                             8.2933e+10  7.2007e+10   6.231e+10  5.8374e+10
Ebit                                     4.2959e+10  3.5058e+10  2.9331e+10  2.7188e+10
Operating Income                         4.2959e+10  3.5058e+10  2.9331e+10  2.7188e+10
Other Operating Expenses                       None        None        None        None
Interest Expense                         -2.686e+09  -2.733e+09  -2.222e+09  -1.243e+09
Extraordinary Items                            None        None        None        None
Non Recurring                                  None        None        None        None
Other Items                                    None        None        None        None
Income Tax Expense                        4.448e+09  1.9903e+10   4.412e+09     5.1e+09
Total Revenue                           1.25843e+11  1.1036e+11  9.6571e+10  9.1154e+10
Total Operating Expenses                 8.2884e+10  7.5302e+10   6.724e+10  6.3966e+10
Cost Of Revenue                           4.291e+10  3.8353e+10  3.4261e+10   3.278e+10
Total Other Income Expense Net             7.29e+08   1.416e+09     5.7e+08  -1.549e+09
Discontinued Operations                        None        None        None        None
Net Income From Continuing Ops            3.924e+10  1.6571e+10  2.5489e+10  2.0539e+10
Net Income Applicable To Common Shares    3.924e+10  1.6571e+10  2.5489e+10  2.0539e+10

[dalder1]

Okay I understand what you did, but I’m still not sure how to make this work for yahoofinancials. There’s no base.py or yfinance library in my yahoofinancials directory.

[sylvandb]

I don't understand how or why renaming a variable (url to urlH) would fix this issue with the yahoo pages. Perhaps a different patch was significant?