Tell HN: Yahoo Finance has apparently killed its API

Yahoo Finance has apparently killed is API. Zero warning. Lots of apps probably use this.

Before, you could get stock information by using http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv

Now, you get the following message: It has come to our attention that this service is being used in violation of the Yahoo Terms of Service. As such, the service is being discontinued. For all future markets and equities data research, please refer to finance.yahoo.com.

What violation of TOS? People have been using this for years without any issues.

If you are going to cut this off, how about a warning and heads up?

Guess that's what we should expect from OATH / Verizon.

> What violation of TOS?

It is against Yahoo's TOS to scrape the data there. So yes its darn entitled to even expect a heads up.

There's a thread about this on Yahoo!s own forums:

https://forums.yahoo.net/t5/Yahoo-Finance-help/http-download...

I am incredibly amused by the person who refers to himself as a customer of this. If you want to be treated like a customer, find someone who will charge you money in exchange for the service provided.

For us non-financy-types, does anyone mind letting us know what this file looked like so we can, you know, potentially duplicate it and provide it to those who find it a necessity?

There are already a number of existing alternatives:

http://fixer.io

https://openexchangerates.org

https://www.exchangerate-api.com

http://www.xe.com/xecurrencydata