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Instead of reading the Google Stock Price data from a .csv or .xlsx file, there are standard APIs such as fix_yahoo_finance, pandas_datareader that can read data directly from open databases.

Standard APIs undergo frequent changes and at times the database websites are not responsive. You need to install these APIs on your machine, as they don't come with standard Python distributions.

Here, we will show an example of using fix_yahoo_finance:

1. Import the required libraries:

import matplotlib.pyplot as pltimport pandas as pdimport fix_yahoo_finance as yf

2. Download the apple daily closing price from October 1, 2017 to January 1, 2018:

data = yf.download('AAPL','2017-10-01','2018-01-01')

3. Plot the closing price (Close) by ...