Has sourcing quotes/downloading data from Yahoo Finance come to an end?

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I obtain quotes from Yahoo Finance and was a bit perplexed earlier as the latest prices didn’t show up on PP.

Had a quick check of a few stocks and funds on Yahoo’s site - from what I can tell there’s now a requirement to login to view historical data. Here’s a thread on Reddit where someone comments it will now cost c. $500/year to have a Premium membership in order to access this!!

Hopefully there’s a work around to this… In the meantime I was just wondering if anybody had any tips or views as to more affordable (free ideally :crossed_fingers: :smiley: ) sources that could be potentially used instead?

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Hey Rich28,

try the option “from table on website” (or so). I find it much more reliable as Yahoo Finance anyway. You best have to find a website in your country.

And keep in mind not to poll the website too often as we all would like to stay the site to be freeof charge.

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Thanks for getting to me @Harry_Hirsch. I definitely go along with what you say re’ the reliability of Yahoo. Its back up today which is sort of good, but how long is it going to remain that way!

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Can you share a ticker symbol of an instrument that does not work anymore? I tried AAPL and still get historical as well as latest prices.

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Still seems all OK on my end as well (I have configured many securities with yahoo) – will keep you posted if that change

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Hi @AndreasB, Early last week I couldn’t download any pricing data whatsoever from Yahoo Finance - that’s to say this wasn’t an issue relating to a single instrument.

As I posted a few days ago, this method of downloading data from Yahoo Finance is up and running again now, but in my mind this experience has left bit of a question mark as to whether it can really be trusted as being reliable. Think there maybe a JSON alternative which I’m currently looking into…

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PP is alread retrieve the Yahoo JSON via their API, for instance via https://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v8/finance/chart/GME. However, if they decide for a payed subscription, data are never free of charge.

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Hi, could you please provide more details on the JSON retrieval method, e.g. validRanges, exchangeNames? Would be very helpful. Thank you.

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Here you can find some examples on how json works in PP:

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Good to know that PP can retrieve Yahoo JSON , thanks.

If a new instrument is added, that uses Yahoo Finance as a data source and was derived from one of PPs predefined listings, will the data be obtained using this (JSON) approach, or will it instead be retrieved via the ‘CSV file’ method? I’m of the view that the JSON method worked early last week whilst the latter didn’t, hence my reason for asking this.

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If the Yahoo Finance feed is set, PP is pulling the data via JSON. New instruments are even provided by the Yahoo JSON API.

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