[R-SIG-Finance] Yahoo Finance API change
Joshua Ulrich
josh.m.ulrich at gmail.com
Wed May 17 04:31:12 CEST 2017
On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 8:17 PM, Alec Schmidt <aschmid1 at stevens.edu> wrote:
> IMHO it's not necessarily quantmod problem. I use get.hist.quote() from tseries, which, too, yields the same error 502.
I don't think it's only a quantmod problem either, which is why I said
most functions that download from Yahoo Finance will no longer work.
I mentioned getSymbols.yahoo because that's the most popular function
I maintain that uses the Yahoo Finance API.
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>
> Hi all,
>
> Just wanted to let the list know that Yahoo Finance changed their API
> and most download functions will no longer work. It looks like
> getting it working will require creating and tracking a session with
> the Yahoo Finance servers.
>
> If you're interested in quantmod::getSymbols.yahoo, you can track
> progress on the fix on the GitHub issue I created:
> https://github.com/joshuaulrich/quantmod/issues/157
>
> Best,
> Josh
>
>
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