gregwinn / ystock

Yahoo market data, (realtime) stock data.
http://winn.ws
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Yahoo changed up the API! #11

Open wakproductions opened 6 years ago

wakproductions commented 6 years ago

getting error now:

SocketError: Failed to open TCP connection to download.finance.yahoo.com:80 (getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided, or not known) from /Users/wkotzan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.3.1/lib/ruby/2.3.0/net/http.rb:882:inrescue in block in connect'`

gregwinn commented 6 years ago

I will look for the latest path, if you know please post it here and I will update it.

wakproductions commented 6 years ago

Seems that they no longer want people accessing the API. It needs a browser cookie now, but who knows they probably rate limit it too. Once again Wall Street screws the little guy.

https://forums.yahoo.net/t5/Yahoo-Finance-help/Is-Yahoo-Finance-API-broken/td-p/250503