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get_historical_prices not working
As of this week, get_historical_prices seems to either timeout or give URL not found responses. I have tried from several platforms with the same results. Can others reproduce the error? Does anyone know the cause or a solution?
pprint(ystockquote.get_historical_prices('GOOGL', '2013-01-03', '2013-01-08')) Traceback (most recent call last): File "
", line 1, in File "//anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ystockquote.py", line 486, in get_historical_prices resp = urlopen(req) File "//anaconda/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 154, in urlopen return opener.open(url, data, timeout) File "//anaconda/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 431, in open response = self._open(req, data) File "//anaconda/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 449, in _open '_open', req) File "//anaconda/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File "//anaconda/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1227, in http_open return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req) File "//anaconda/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1197, in do_open raise URLError(err) urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 60] Operation timed out>
Same thing here @ifuchs
When trying the example on the project page, pprint(ystockquote.get_historical_prices('GOOGL', '2013-01-03', '2013-01-08'))
I get error HTTPError: HTTP Error 504: Maximum Transaction Time Exceeded
Seems like Yahoo Finance API has been shut down, read more about it there: https://forums.yahoo.net/t5/Yahoo-Finance-help/Is-Yahoo-Finance-API-broken/td-p/250503 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/44057580/yahoo-finance-api-changes-2017
@cgoldberg any chance you can implement a workaround like this one maybe? would be awesome :) https://github.com/c0redumb/yahoo_quote_download
It looks like Yahoo removed the csv API it was pulling data from. I'm looking for alternative data source
Scraping data from the stock quotes page is an option, but their markup is a disaster
If Yahoo historical quotes can't be made to work reliably, this seems to work:
http://trading.cheno.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/google.py
I have an open pull request that parses their data (grabbing json in source). Passes the python 2.7 tests but not the 3.x ones https://github.com/amalek215/ystockquote
There is still yahoo alternative while using url: "https://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v7/finance/download"; Client requires to have enabled cookies and get crumb. Example query looks like:
https://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v7/finance/download/SBUX?period1=1451602800&period2=1496140683&interval=1d&events=history&crumb=.BprRZODzhT
I used this new endpoint but for some request I get NULL data inside, just let you know. Cheers.
For the past year I have been developing a backtesting algo using the historical prices provided by Yahoo finance. Having the API shut down I have nowhere to pull data from. I hope some genius can fix this in the near future or provide an alternative.
See my comment above. I have used GoogleQuote to replace Yahoo historical quotes.
The link provided by @ifuchs doesn't seem to work. Is a fix coming or has a better solution been found?
I am still seeking a way to get a closing price for a specific date. Does anyone have a working script?