As for now (2015), the google finance api is deprecated. But you may use the pypi module googlefinance.
Install googlefinance
$pip install googlefinance
It is easy to get current stock price:
>>> from googlefinance import getQuotes
>>> import json
>>> print json.dumps(getQuotes('AAPL'), indent=2)
[
{
"Index": "NASDAQ",
"LastTradeWithCurrency": "129.09",
"LastTradeDateTime": "2015-03-02T16:04:29Z",
"LastTradePrice": "129.09",
"Yield": "1.46",
"LastTradeTime": "4:04PM EST",
"LastTradeDateTimeLong": "Mar 2, 4:04PM EST",
"Dividend": "0.47",
"StockSymbol": "AAPL",
"ID": "22144"
}
]
Google finance is a source that provides real-time stock data. There are also other APIs from yahoo, such as yahoo-finance, but they are delayed by 15min for NYSE and NASDAQ stocks.