# AKShare

> Chapter 1 · GitHub facts 2026-10-22 · Web version: https://finance-agents.dev/projects/akshare

## What it does

AKShare is a Python financial-data interface library. `pyproject.toml` sets `requires-python` to `>=3.11` and depends on packages such as `pandas`, `requests`, `beautifulsoup4`, and `lxml`. This list marks it as a China A-share and multi-market toolkit often used as an agent data backend.

## Repository facts

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| Repository | [akfamily/akshare](https://github.com/akfamily/akshare) |
| GitHub description | AKShare is an elegant and simple financial data interface library for Python, built for human beings! 开源财经数据接口库 |
| Stars | 23,037 |
| Forks | 3,552 |
| Created | 2019-10-01 |
| Default branch | `main` |
| Last commit | [2026-10-13](https://github.com/akfamily/akshare/commit/fe10d1decb705e5f43cc8ca3339ca39e580fb8f4) `fe10d1d` |
| Last push | 2026-10-21 |
| License | MIT |
| Homepage | https://akshare.akfamily.xyz |
| Primary language | Python |
| Languages | Python, JavaScript, Dockerfile |
| Topics | futures, financial-data, data-science, quant, fundamental, akshare, option, stock, data, datasets, bond, asset-pricing, academic, currency, finance, finance-api, economic-data, economics, data-analysis |

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Source: GitHub API, 2026-10-22.


## Technical stack

Primary language reported by GitHub: Python.
Languages reported by GitHub: Python, JavaScript, Dockerfile.

Dependency files (package names only, as read on the fetch date):
- `pyproject.toml`: `beautifulsoup4`, `lxml`, `pandas`, `requests`, `curl_cffi`, `html5lib`, `xlrd`, `urllib3`, `tqdm`, `openpyxl`, `jsonpath`, `tabulate`, `decorator`

## Activity

Last commit on the default branch `main`: 2026-10-13 ([`fe10d1d`](https://github.com/akfamily/akshare/commit/fe10d1decb705e5f43cc8ca3339ca39e580fb8f4)). Subject: Dev (#7440).

Last push to the repository: 2026-10-21. Created: 2019-10-01.

## Who it is for

For notebooks and agents that need Chinese-market and multi-market series through a Python API.

## In this list

Filed under: [Chapter 1](/chapters/1-data-and-tools).

Category note: [Data and Tools](/categories/data-and-tools).

Related project pages: [OpenBB](/projects/openbb).

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GitHub facts: 2026-10-22. CC0 1.0 · https://github.com/aowang-ai/awesome-finance-agents

Maintained by Ao Wang (https://aowang.ai).