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Benny- / Yahoo-ticker-symbol-downloader

A web scraper for ticker symbols from yahoo finance
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Yahoo-ticker-downloader/
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Error when loop arrives 2020 #17

Closed mrisus closed 7 years ago

mrisus commented 7 years ago

I think Yahoo has restricted the pagination.

I have error when the program arrives 2020: https://finance.yahoo.com/lookup/?m=ALL&b=2020&t=B&s=b&r=

Benny- commented 7 years ago

True. There is no way to circumvent this on my side.

The script can handle the restriction and continue on after several tries. The script is made so it will magically work once the restriction is lifted. It will try multiple times, the reason for this is related to issue #4.