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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
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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.
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?
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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.
And for good reason. I don't go to yahoo for its clever articles or its mail or its search function ... I go to download currency commodity and stock information.
At least they could have explored offering the million people like me the info for a couple of bucks a month ... 2 million a month is worth looking at.
Instead a cryptic adios ... its brand suicide (or murder seeing how verizon owns them now)
1. it looks like this was just a CSV download. Was any form of authentication (even just a Yahoo login) required to download the CSV? I'm just trying to figure out how, if Yahoo actually thought of issuing a warning, it would have known who to send it too or how to get news of the shutdown circulated to the right people.
2. If it was a CSV download, how up to date was the data?
3. Does anybody have a sample URI for a filtered version of this CSV request. For example, just two symbols?
Thanks
David Berlind ProgrammableWeb
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.
Obviously, Xignite is the leader in paid service but it's way too expensive for startups (approximately 20k for the cheapest option).
IEX and AlphaVantage have decent customer support so I trust them, but I'd rather have a cheaper, paid service.
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.
The new download issue which began 11/01/17 and returning an error 999 for most users is currently being investigated and we hope to have it resolved soon
This was before the TOS violation response was being returned so I'm assuming not everyone in Yahoo! was prepared to deal with this.
[1] https://forums.yahoo.net/t5/Yahoo-Finance-help/Is-Yahoo-Fina...