earlier this week I've noticed that my scripts fail as they cannot get historical data from Yahoo Finance. I don't know if there is a change to Yahoo! Finance API but even the following code from your recent tutorial doesn't work any more.
import datetime as dt from pandas_datareader import data as web
start = dt.datetime(2000, 1, 1) end = dt.datetime(2016, 12, 31)
df = web.DataReader('TSLA', 'yahoo', start, end)
Any idea what to do? I used to download historical data for the S&P 500 index ('^GSPC'), but can't figure out if this is possible using 'google' as data_source (instead of 'yahoo').
Thank you very much for your help.
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See https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/yahoo-historical-data-did-they-change-the-url-recently.309554/
After reading this I have decided to give up on, "python programming for finance" because yahoo appear to have thrown the baby out with the bathwater & vandalised what would have been a fantastic sentdex tutorial
-paddy10tellys 7 years ago
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Unfortunately, virtually every single "Python for Finance" tutorial/book/course in the world relied on Yahoo! Finance API that doesn't work anymore. But giving up is not a choice for me.
I agree: the tutorials by sentdex are fantastic. I've learned a lot from them. That's why I would appreciate hearing his thoughts on this.
-mnalevanko 7 years ago
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Agree. Correction = I'm giving up for now but will monitor the situation. As a noob programmer (months) I have to pick my learning battles efficiently.
Like you I would appreciate reading his advice...
-paddy10tellys 7 years ago
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just try 'google' instead of 'yahoo'. thats it ;) you wont have 'Adj. Close' but 'Close' to work with
df = web.DataReader('TSLA', 'google', start, end)
-totial 7 years ago
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Appreciated! You are most kind :-)
-paddy10tellys 7 years ago
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just had a search around and found this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/44012335/python-pandas-datareader-isnt-working with a comment "
When I visit ichart.finance.yahoo.com right now it shows the message "Yahoo will be right back. Our engineers are working quickly to resolve the issue." So there's clearly a server-side issue right now. Just have a little patience and try again later. "
Which I also get, looks like yahoo has gone poorly for a few days now, or this could be the demise of the api, lets hope not, anyway great tutorials, lets make this a great community as well.
-jasonrobert 7 years ago
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