Yahoo Finance: too many requests / Getting errors on updates (desktop only)

Ja das geht gerade vielen so.

Nichts dem zu trotz bist du in diesem Faden falsch, auf der ersten Seite findest du schon einen Faden zu diesem Thema.

Dort kann man sich auf dem Laufenden halten, und muss nicht als x-ter schreiben, dieses Problem auch zu haben.

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Portfolio performance built-in stock price feature is also failing as it is not picking up any quotes from today. Same for Alpha vantage

The free built-in price provider Portfolio Performance and also Portfolio Report currently only provide historical prices (closing price from the previous trading day). In the future, current price quotes from built-in provider may also be available as an optional subscription, since current price quotes are expensive.

Regarding quotes through API from Alpha Vantage I have no own experience.

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And I suspect for most users this is more than sufficient, at least for me.

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yeah, silly me I didn’t realize this. I would definitely like to at least see day quotes, however I understand this can be complicated. I would gladly pay for such a feature. And the team should open up for donations, for which I would love to contribute

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There are some free providers for intra-day quotes that support JSON. I’ve configured it for a couple of ETFs because Yahoo keep switching between GBP and USD which messes with all the graphs and calculations.


I wasn’t aware of the inbuilt quote provider. Using a combination of that provider for historical quotes and ‘my’ free JSON daily provider resolves the problem.

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can you give an example? I never understood how to do the JSON thing myself

See my posting history for details of the provider.

You’ll need to use these settings.

$.symbols[*].date
yyyy-MM-dd
$.symbols[*].close
$.symbols[*].low
$.symbols[*].high

$.symbols[*].volume

If this would be available at a low price (something like 25€/year), I would pay for it, even though I don’t really need it.

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.
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You can maybe make a personal Google Sheet (that provides share price), however the ticker is not the same (a dutch stock like ASML.AS is AMS:ASML for Google).

You can create a script to force the refresh of the prices every X hours.

And then scrap that spreadsheet from the HTML view or similar?

Of course there is a lot of work involved on it.

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BTW, I create an “experimental fix” with Version 0.76.1 (available via online update)

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@AndreasB funktioniert, danke dir fĂźr das rasche Update :slight_smile:

Super. Danke bestens. Funzt so wie es aussieht. :+1:

Super! Funktioniert auch bei mir!

Seems to be fixed for me as well. Thanks for the update!

Thank you for the update, working for Canadian and US exchanges

Thank you for the update. Works for Indian stocks as well.

But if we want to manually update quotes for multiple securities, is it possible to have a CSV file with the ticker symbol as the coloumn heading and dates as the row headings so that we can updates quotes manually for all securities through a single file?

This would be a somewhat easier workaround incase Yahoo Finance changes something else in the future.

Right now, it looks like we need to upload one CSV file for each security

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Thank you, this seems to have fixed the problem for me.

Danke fĂźr das sehr schnelle Update und den grandiosen Einsatz ganz allgemein, funktioniert hier bisher einwandfrei.

Ups, sorry, english thread, so:
Thank you for the very quick update and your great efforts in general, it’s been working perfectly here so far.