# Yahoo Finance Options Chain Scraper (`searchapi/yahoo-finance-options-scraper`) Actor

Scrapes Yahoo Finance options chain data including calls and puts with strike prices, bid/ask, volume, open interest, and implied volatility.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/searchapi/yahoo-finance-options-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Search API](https://apify.com/searchapi) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, Automation, Other
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 0 monthly users, 36.7% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.99 / 1,000 search results

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Yahoo Finance Options Chain Scraper

Extract current public call and put tables from Yahoo Finance for one or many ticker symbols. Records use stable IDs and numeric prices, liquidity, and volatility values; they also include the underlying quote, expiration, moneyness, URLs, and extraction provenance.

Use `expirationMode` to load the nearest chain, one `expirationDate`, or up to `maxExpirationDates` dates from Yahoo's live expiration selector. Apply strike, volume, open-interest, implied-volatility, option-type, and moneyness filters, then choose a sort. `maxItems` is enforced globally and allocated fairly across symbols; `maxItemsPerSymbol` provides an additional bound.

Run locally with `apify run --purge --input-file INPUT.json`. An optional proxy can be enabled with `proxyConfiguration`. The Actor does not enable a proxy implicitly, solve CAPTCHAs, or publish partial data after a request failure. A legitimate symbol with no option contracts completes with an empty dataset.

Yahoo currently exposes option contracts in server-rendered tables rather than a reliable public structured response, so this Actor uses validated DOM fields. Images, media, and fonts are skipped to reduce runtime without removing table or network data.

# Actor input Schema

## `symbols` (type: `array`):

One to 20 Yahoo Finance ticker symbols, for example AAPL, SPY, or BRK-B.

## `expirationMode` (type: `string`):

Nearest loads the default chain; specific uses expirationDate; nextN/all use Yahoo's live selector.

## `expirationDate` (type: `string`):

YYYY-MM-DD date used only in specific mode.

## `maxExpirationDates` (type: `integer`):

Maximum live expiration dates to visit in nextN or all mode.

## `optionTypes` (type: `string`):

Return both contract types or only calls or puts.

## `moneyness` (type: `string`):

Filter contracts relative to the current underlying quote.

## `minStrike` (type: `number`):

Optional inclusive minimum strike price.

## `maxStrike` (type: `number`):

Optional inclusive maximum strike price.

## `minVolume` (type: `number`):

Optional minimum reported contract volume.

## `minOpenInterest` (type: `number`):

Optional minimum reported open interest.

## `minImpliedVolatilityPercent` (type: `number`):

Optional inclusive minimum implied volatility percentage.

## `maxImpliedVolatilityPercent` (type: `number`):

Optional inclusive maximum implied volatility percentage.

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

Sort each symbol's contracts before applying limits.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Global record limit allocated fairly across symbols.

## `maxItemsPerSymbol` (type: `integer`):

Additional record limit for each individual symbol.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Maximum Yahoo pages processed concurrently.

## `maxRequestRetries` (type: `integer`):

Retries for temporary browser, rate-limit, and network failures.

## `navigationTimeoutSecs` (type: `integer`):

Maximum page-navigation time.

## `requestHandlerTimeoutSecs` (type: `integer`):

Maximum processing time per option-chain page.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional Apify Proxy or custom proxy URLs. No proxy is used unless enabled.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "symbols": [
    "AAPL",
    "SPY"
  ],
  "expirationMode": "nearest",
  "maxExpirationDates": 3,
  "optionTypes": "all",
  "moneyness": "all",
  "sortBy": "yahooOrder",
  "maxItems": 500,
  "maxItemsPerSymbol": 500,
  "maxConcurrency": 4,
  "maxRequestRetries": 2,
  "navigationTimeoutSecs": 45,
  "requestHandlerTimeoutSecs": 90,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "symbols": [
        "AAPL",
        "SPY"
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": false
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("searchapi/yahoo-finance-options-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "symbols": [
        "AAPL",
        "SPY",
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": False },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("searchapi/yahoo-finance-options-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "symbols": [
    "AAPL",
    "SPY"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}' |
apify call searchapi/yahoo-finance-options-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,searchapi/yahoo-finance-options-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/NzSzm7dXNs1ksV9lZ/builds/H0eOZZOhNd3CUfDHI/openapi.json