get_historical_prices not working

[ifuchs]

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>

[dejafait]

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

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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

[cgoldberg]

It looks like Yahoo removed the csv API it was pulling data from. I'm looking for alternative data source

[cgoldberg]

Scraping data from the stock quotes page is an option, but their markup is a disaster

[ifuchs]

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

[amalek215]

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

[pljanot]

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.

[Cloudberry04]

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.

[ifuchs]

See my comment above. I have used GoogleQuote to replace Yahoo historical quotes.

[simtaxman]

The link provided by @ifuchs doesn't seem to work. Is a fix coming or has a better solution been found?

[ifuchs]

I am still seeking a way to get a closing price for a specific date. Does anyone have a working script?