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JuliaDataReaders / DataReaders.jl

A Julia library to get remote data via Requests.jl and get DataFrame (from DataFrames.jl) or TimeArray (from TimeSeries.jl)
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Deprecate Yahoo DataReader? #33

Open scls19fr opened 6 years ago

scls19fr commented 6 years ago

See https://forums.yahoo.net/t5/Yahoo-Finance-help/Is-Yahoo-Finance-API-broken/m-p/250503#U250503 See also https://github.com/pydata/pandas-datareader/issues?utf8=✓&q=is%3Aissue+yahoo+is%3Aclosed+yahoo See #21
Implement DataReader for alternative datasources is required See #5

scls19fr commented 6 years ago

On the other side, Temporal.jl support Yahoo (Canadian version of their website) https://github.com/dysonance/Temporal.jl/blob/579fcb69cf36f2e34d770d2f2ed6c02dc7a561ab/src/io.jl#L302

not sure what is the best to do.

Pankaj-Baranwal commented 6 years ago

Yes, we should deprecate yahoo DataReader. Official response by Yahoo: https://forums.yahoo.net/t5/Yahoo-Finance-help/Is-Yahoo-Finance-API-broken/td-p/250503/page/3

scls19fr commented 6 years ago

Did you test Yahoo support with Temporal.jl ?

using Temporal
yahoo("AAPL", from="2010-06-09", thru=string(Dates.today()), freq="wk")
scls19fr commented 6 years ago

Have also a look at https://github.com/pydata/pandas-datareader/pull/489/files