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YFinance Tool

Get financial information about stocks and other assets directly within Nappai. This tool uses Yahoo Finance to fetch data, making it easy to access up-to-date market information.

Relationship with Yahoo Finance

This component connects to Yahoo Finance, a popular website for financial data. It allows Nappai to retrieve information directly from Yahoo Finance without needing to visit the website yourself.

Inputs

  • Information to request: This dropdown menu lets you choose what kind of information you want. You can select general information about a stock ticker or historical data for different time periods (1 day, 1 week, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, or 1 year). The default option is “Ticker Info”.

Outputs

The component provides a “Tool” output. This isn’t something you’ll see directly, but it’s what Nappai uses to get the financial data you requested. The data itself will then be displayed elsewhere in your Nappai dashboard, depending on how you’ve set up your workflow.

Usage Example

Let’s say you want to see the price history of Apple (AAPL) over the last month. You would:

  1. Select “AAPL” as your ticker symbol (this would likely be done in another part of your Nappai workflow).
  2. In the YFinance Tool’s “Information to request” dropdown, choose “1m” (for 1 month).
  3. Nappai will then fetch the Apple stock price data for the past month and display it in your dashboard.

Templates

This component is used in the following Nappai templates:

  • Complex Agent
  • Stock chat
  • OpenAI Function Agent: Uses OpenAI’s language models to process and present the financial data obtained by the YFinance Tool.
  • ReAct Agent LLM: A language model that can interact with the YFinance Tool and other components to answer complex questions about financial data.
  • XML Agent: Formats instructions for the language model as XML.
  • OpenAI Tools Agent: Uses tools via openai-tools.
  • Tool Calling Agent: Uses tools.
  • SQLAgent: Constructs an SQL agent from an LLM and tools.
  • Sequential Task Agent: Creates a CrewAI Task and its associated Agent. (Learn more)
  • Sequential Task: Defines tasks within a workflow. (Learn more)
  • CrewAI Agent: Represents an agent of CrewAI. (Learn more)
  • Hierarchical Task: Defines hierarchical tasks within a workflow. (Learn more)

Tips and Best Practices

  • Make sure you enter the correct ticker symbol. Incorrect symbols will result in errors.
  • For historical data, consider the time period you select. Very long periods might take longer to process.

Security Considerations

This component relies on data from Yahoo Finance. While Yahoo Finance is a reputable source, always be aware of the potential risks associated with using external data sources. Do not rely solely on this data for critical financial decisions.