OpenBB/website/content/sdk/reference/stocks/load.md

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load	Learn how to use the load function within OpenBBTerminal's stocks module to retrieve and analyze data. Provide a symbol (ticker), define start and end dates, interval, choose whether to include pre/post-hours data and the data source. Options to retrieve weekly and monthly data are available. The gathered data is returned as a pandas DataFrame.	symbol analysis start_date interval end_date prepost source YahooFinance weekly data monthly data verbose data extraction dataframe

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Load a symbol to perform analysis using the string above as a template.

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openbb.stocks.load(symbol: str, start_date: Union[datetime.datetime, str, NoneType] = None, interval: int = 1440, end_date: Union[datetime.datetime, str, NoneType] = None, prepost: bool = False, source: str = "YahooFinance", weekly: bool = False, monthly: bool = False, verbose: bool = True)

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Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Default	Optional
symbol	str	Ticker to get data	None	False
start_date	str or datetime	Start date to get data from with. - datetime or string format (YYYY-MM-DD)	None	True
interval	int	Interval (in minutes) to get data 1, 5, 15, 30, 60 or 1440	1440	True
end_date	str or datetime	End date to get data from with. - datetime or string format (YYYY-MM-DD)	None	True
prepost	bool	Pre and After hours data	False	True
source	str	Source of data extracted	YahooFinance	True
weekly	bool	Flag to get weekly data	False	True
monthly	bool	Flag to get monthly data	False	True
verbose	bool	Display verbose information on what was the symbol that was loaded	True	True

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Returns

Type	Description
pd.DataFrame	Dataframe of data

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