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Tell HN: Yahoo Finance has apparently killed its API

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Re: Tell HN: Yahoo Finance has apparently killed its API

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Post by dx034 »

solaris_7 wrote: post #9
joshmn wrote: post #7

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

You find FX data everywhere because it's public. But Yahoo also had stock data. And that is hard to find for free online. I guess Yahoo had to shut it down because exchanges didn't like them giving data away for free via API.

Re: Tell HN: Yahoo Finance has apparently killed its API

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Post by csallen »

I interviewed the people behind Intrinio[1] for Indie Hackers. I haven't used their product myself, so I can't tell you how it stacks up against the Yahoo and Google APIs that were killed this month. But I do know that they provide financial data and APIs to developers, and their primary goal is making it super cheap and pleasant to use.

[1] https://intrinio.com

Re: Tell HN: Yahoo Finance has apparently killed its API

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Post by dx034 »

peterbraden wrote: post #6

The undocumented Google finance API was also turned off this month after many years. There's a severe dearth of good, free, market data API's.

If both shut down within a short period of time it's probably due to the vendor. I'd guess one of the major exchanges in the US has changed the terms of the license or started enforcing it. They make money with this data so it's understandable that they don't like free APIs.

Re: Tell HN: Yahoo Finance has apparently killed its API

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Post by dx034 »

jsemrau wrote: post #4

Roughly 10 years ago I build an Excel stock screener using this API. The data quality was always terrible.

I wouldn't trade on it but they were reasonably good to get a sense for where stuff trades. E.g. monitoring your portfolio with this worked well, esp for EOD data.
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