yahoo-finance python library not working?

Question

today I'm try to use yahoo-finance library than some issue occur by code. i provide code and occurred error. here is library link https://pypi.org/project/yahoo-finance/

code:-

from yahoo_finance import Share
yahoo = Share('YHOO')
print(yahoo.get_open())

Error is

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 1318, in do_open
    encode_chunked=req.has_header('Transfer-encoding'))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/http/client.py", line 1254, in request
    self._send_request(method, url, body, headers, encode_chunked)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/http/client.py", line 1300, in _send_request
    self.endheaders(body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/http/client.py", line 1249, in endheaders
    self._send_output(message_body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/http/client.py", line 1036, in _send_output
    self.send(msg)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/http/client.py", line 974, in send
    self.connect()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/http/client.py", line 1407, in connect
    super().connect()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/http/client.py", line 946, in connect
    (self.host,self.port), self.timeout, self.source_address)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/socket.py", line 704, in create_connection
    for res in getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, SOCK_STREAM):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/socket.py", line 745, in getaddrinfo
    for res in _socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, family, type, proto, flags):
socket.gaierror: [Errno -2] Name or service not known

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "main.py", line 3, in <module>
    yahoo = Share('YHOO')
  File "/home/yogesh/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yahoo_finance/__init__.py", line 178, in __init__
    self.refresh()
  File "/home/yogesh/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yahoo_finance/__init__.py", line 142, in refresh
    self.data_set = self._fetch()
  File "/home/yogesh/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yahoo_finance/__init__.py", line 181, in _fetch
    data = super(Share, self)._fetch()
  File "/home/yogesh/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yahoo_finance/__init__.py", line 134, in _fetch
    data = self._request(query)
  File "/home/yogesh/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yahoo_finance/__init__.py", line 118, in _request
    response = yql.YQLQuery().execute(query)
  File "/home/yogesh/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yahoo_finance/yql.py", line 61, in execute
    'env': DATATABLES_URL
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 223, in urlopen
    return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 526, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 544, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 504, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 1361, in https_open
    context=self._context, check_hostname=self._check_hostname)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 1320, in do_open
    raise URLError(err)
urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno -2] Name or service not known>

i have a no idea about this error, please help me to solve this problem. Thank you....

Answer 1

The package is broken. See for example, this issue on GitHub: https://github.com/lukaszbanasiak/yahoo-finance/issues/148

Your best bet would be to indicate on GitHub that the package is not working and perhaps the author is able to help you further.