Just a quick recap:
A lot of other projects that use Yahoo to get price report similar problems. At the moment, it is not clear what it means exactly. For sure, Yahoo is trying to prevent usage outside of their web site. We’ll try.
What are other options:
- The newly introduced “build-in” provide has historical data for EU and US equities. It is also using the ticker symbol as identifier, therefore switching (or trying to switch) should be fairly easy. You have to a create a login in the settings page - otherwise the functionality is currently hidden (I am starting to roll it out). For a “mass change”: select the instruments in “all securities” view and then right-click “Search for suppliers of historical prices”
- You can use some of the other commercial providers. For this, you have to configure your API key in the settings. Not all implementations support the current prices (because not many people have paid plans on those commercial providers)
- You can configure pages that either serve HTML tables or JSON data. Some of those pages also contain the current price.