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

#21

edit - hackernews apparently doesn't value new ideas.

Please forgive my ignorance, but what possible intersection is there between blockchains (method of immutably storing small quantities of data in a distributed fashion currently limited by power waste, slowness, and needed storage amount) and providing real data about real stock markets to real people (getting data with proper license and providing it to others on request, currently limited by legal means)?

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

#22

edit - hackernews apparently doesn't value new ideas.

Please forgive my ignorance, but what possible intersection is there between blockchains (method of immutably storing small quantities of data in a distributed fashion currently limited by power waste, slowness, and needed storage amount) and providing real data about real stock markets to real people (getting data with proper license and providing it to others on request, currently limited by legal means)?

Coin exchanges are dealing with plenty of real money for plenty of real people and have real licenses and very real government oversight (at least in places like the US and EU) , so your snark is not very appropriate.

Regarding your actual point, I can't see the connection either.

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

#23
Quite happy about the suggestions for similar APIs here. They’re somehow hard to find in the forest of overpriced professional services.

I‘m using a different Yahoo endpoint with ticker.sh[1], which is still functioning at this time. Maybe there‘s soon the need to find yet another alternative after the Google endpoint stopped working recently.

[1] https://github.com/pstadler/ticker.sh

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

#24

The API at https://query2.finance.yahoo.com seems to still work [0] [0] https://query2.finance.yahoo.com/v8/finance/chart/VZ?period1...

Thanks but this is only returning historical stock price data while the yahoo download quotes.csv returned stock market data including ebitda, market cap, price ratios and much more.

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.

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

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post #25
post #2

If you built a business around data that you didn't explicitly have the rights to you built that house of cards yourself.

You realized that’s probably half of the startups and companies out there right?

That doesn't make it any less true.

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

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post #25
post #2

If you built a business around data that you didn't explicitly have the rights to you built that house of cards yourself.

You realized that’s probably half of the startups and companies out there right?

Most startups and companies (try to) act in good faith and will acquire a license. And, if they did not, they should foresee the legal and operational consequences.
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