How to Retrieve Real-Time Minute-Level Stock Data with Python

This guide explains how to use Python, pandas, and requests to fetch minute‑by‑minute K‑line data for Chinese stocks from Eastmoney's API, generate the required secid, handle different market codes, and continuously save the data until market close.

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How to Retrieve Real-Time Minute-Level Stock Data with Python

Code Demonstration

Fetch Daily Minute‑Line Data

from urllib.parse import urlencode
import pandas as pd
import requests

def gen_secid(rawcode: str) -> str:
    '''Generate Eastmoney‑specific secid.
    Parameters
    ----------
    rawcode : 6‑digit stock code
    Returns
    -------
    str: formatted secid string
    '''
    # Shanghai market index
    if rawcode[:3] == '000':
        return f'1.{rawcode}'
    # Shenzhen market index
    if rawcode[:3] == '399':
        return f'0.{rawcode}'
    # Shanghai A‑share stocks
    if rawcode[0] != '6':
        return f'0.{rawcode}'
    # Shenzhen A‑share stocks
    return f'1.{rawcode}'

def get_k_history(code: str, beg: str = '16000101', end: str = '20500101', klt: int = 1, fqt: int = 1) -> pd.DataFrame:
    '''Fetch K‑line data.
    Parameters
    ----------
    code : 6‑digit stock code
    beg  : start date, e.g., 20200101
    end  : end date, e.g., 20200201
    klt  : K‑line interval (1‑minute, 5‑minute, daily=101, weekly=102, etc.)
    fqt  : adjustment type (0: none, 1: forward, 2: backward)
    Returns
    -------
    DataFrame: stock K‑line data
    '''
    EastmoneyKlines = {
        'f51': '日期',
        'f52': '开盘',
        'f53': '收盘',
        'f54': '最高',
        'f55': '最低',
        'f56': '成交量',
        'f57': '成交额',
        'f58': '振幅',
        'f59': '涨跌幅',
        'f60': '涨跌额',
        'f61': '换手率'
    }
    EastmoneyHeaders = {
        'Host': '19.push2.eastmoney.com',
        'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; Trident/7.0; Touch; rv:11.0) like Gecko',
        'Accept': '*/*',
        'Accept-Language': 'zh-CN,zh;q=0.8,zh-TW;q=0.7,zh-HK;q=0.5,en-US;q=0.3,en;q=0.2',
        'Referer': 'http://quote.eastmoney.com/center/gridlist.html'
    }
    fields = list(EastmoneyKlines.keys())
    columns = list(EastmoneyKlines.values())
    fields2 = ",".join(fields)
    secid = gen_secid(code)
    params = (
        ('fields1', 'f1,f2,f3,f4,f5,f6,f7,f8,f9,f10,f11,f12,f13'),
        ('fields2', fields2),
        ('beg', beg),
        ('end', end),
        ('rtntype', '6'),
        ('secid', secid),
        ('klt', f'{klt}'),
        ('fqt', f'{fqt}')
    )
    params = dict(params)
    base_url = 'https://push2his.eastmoney.com/api/qt/stock/kline/get'
    url = base_url + '?' + urlencode(params)
    json_response: dict = requests.get(url, headers=EastmoneyHeaders).json()
    data = json_response.get('data')
    if data is None:
        if secid[0] == '0':
            secid = f'1.{code}'
        else:
            secid = f'0.{code}'
        params['secid'] = secid
        url = base_url + '?' + urlencode(params)
        json_response = requests.get(url, headers=EastmoneyHeaders).json()
        data = json_response.get('data')
    if data is None:
        print('股票代码:', code, '可能有误')
        return pd.DataFrame(columns=columns)
    klines = data['klines']
    rows = []
    for _kline in klines:
        kline = _kline.split(',')
        rows.append(kline)
    df = pd.DataFrame(rows, columns=columns)
    return df

if __name__ == "__main__":
    code = '600519'
    df = get_k_history(code)
    df.to_csv(f'{code}.csv', encoding='utf-8-sig', index=None)
    print(f'股票代码:{code} 的 k线数据已保存到代码目录下的 {code}.csv 文件中')

Fetch Current Day Minute Data (Run Every Minute Until Close)

from urllib.parse import urlencode
import pandas as pd
import requests
import time

def gen_secid(rawcode: str) -> str:
    '''Generate Eastmoney‑specific secid.'''
    if rawcode[:3] == '000':
        return f'1.{rawcode}'
    if rawcode[:3] == '399':
        return f'0.{rawcode}'
    if rawcode[0] != '6':
        return f'0.{rawcode}'
    return f'1.{rawcode}'

def get_k_history(code: str, beg: str = '16000101', end: str = '20500101', klt: int = 1, fqt: int = 1) -> pd.DataFrame:
    '''Fetch K‑line data.'''
    # (same implementation as above, omitted for brevity)
    ...

if __name__ == "__main__":
    for _ in range(1000):
        code = '600519'
        df = get_k_history(code)
        df.to_csv(f'{code}.csv', encoding='utf-8-sig', index=None)
        print(f'股票代码:{code} 的 k线数据已保存到代码目录下的 {code}.csv 文件中')
        if len(df) >= 240:
            print('已收盘')
            break
        time.sleep(60)

Runtime Environment

Python version requirement

Python 3

Required libraries

pandas requests

Install the libraries by opening a command prompt and running: pip install pandas requests Press Enter and wait until the installation finishes successfully.

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