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

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IEX has an official, documented, supported, relatively clean, and entirely free API for their market data: https://iextrading.com/developer/docs/ It's just US stocks, and quote data is just for their exchange (and you can get the deep book if you're interested in that stuff). But they have basic company info: earnings estimates, split info, dividend info, etc. as well.

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

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post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Downloading a csv isn’t scraping.

I don't know if the csv was meant to be an api or just giving the option to someone visiting yahoo finance (and therefore viewing ads) the ability to download data they viewed. If you go straight to the data and bypass the ads, you are sort of scraping.

You must be joking. It’s an API, ads are irrelevant.

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

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I use Alpha Vantage, just for a personal (1 user, me) application. The service is free, you just need an API key. - https://www.alphavantage.co/

https://www.alphavantage.co/support/#api-key "While we are proud to provide free API service with no daily/weekly/monthly call limits, we recommend that API call frequency does not extend far beyond ~100 calls per minute so that we can continue to deliver the optimal server-side performance. If you would like to target a much larger API call volume, please drop us a note..."

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

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post #26

IEX has an official, documented, supported, relatively clean, and entirely free API for their market data: https://iextrading.com/developer/docs/ It's just US stocks, and quote data is just for their exchange (and you can get the deep book if you're interested in that stuff). But they have basic company info: earnings estimates, split info, dividend info, etc. as well.

Yes, IEX only. But still great service, great tools. All for free. I mean how often do you see websocket support?

If you want or need high res quotes from all exchanges including options data, you can also take a look at Nanex

http://www.nanex.net/

And thanks to everyone for posting great links ;)

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

#56
I wrote a small cli/library to pull tickers and historical quotes from various sources directly to csv or json. It still works with the new Yahoo format, but I wouldn't count on it sticking around. Also pulls bitcoin data from gdax.

https://github.com/markcheno/go-quote

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

#57
post #44

Yeah. It's been on & off for a while but yesterday looks like it went for good. I had to fix my script switching to: http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/api/quote-page/{CURRENCY_PA...

is it documented somewhere or you just analyzed your browser requests?

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

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post #45
post #15

They broke functionality on their own pages, yikes. E.g. the export button on the desktop version of https://finance.yahoo.com/quotes/MMM,IBM/view/v1?ql=1

You'd think after you take down an API you've be furiously checking the server logs for any referrers coming from inside the house.

Half dead company running on fumes. They probably don't even know half of what they run, let alone have staff to check the logs.

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

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post #26

IEX has an official, documented, supported, relatively clean, and entirely free API for their market data: https://iextrading.com/developer/docs/ It's just US stocks, and quote data is just for their exchange (and you can get the deep book if you're interested in that stuff). But they have basic company info: earnings estimates, split info, dividend info, etc. as well.

Yes, IEX only. But still great service, great tools. All for free. I mean how often do you see websocket support? If you want or need high res quotes from all exchanges including options data, you can also take a look at Nanex http://www.nanex.net/ And thanks to everyone for posting great links ;)

What is the pricing like?
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