Open edward-dauvergne opened 7 years ago
Now they are returning 404
Yes, any getQuotes request for me returns 404 since this morning. Anybody else still able to use this library?
me having 404 too with the method below in python 2.7 print json.dumps(getQuotes('AAPL'), indent=2)
It seems like that endpoint itself has changed or gone away (temporarily? permanently? can't say), which is the unfortunate nature of this system since it has no official API anymore.
I helped someone on StackOverflow with a 'workaround' of basically parsing the full response to get information.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/46081537/297696
Code from answer below:
import json
import requests
rsp = requests.get('https://finance.google.com/finance?q=AAPL&output=json')
if rsp.status_code in (200,):
# This magic here is to cut out various leading characters from the JSON
# response, as well as trailing stuff (a terminating ']\n' sequence), and then
# we decode the escape sequences in the response
# This then allows you to load the resulting string
# with the JSON module.
fin_data = json.loads(rsp.content[6:-2].decode('unicode_escape'))
# print out some quote data
print('Opening Price: {}'.format(fin_data['op']))
print('Price/Earnings Ratio: {}'.format(fin_data['pe']))
print('52-week high: {}'.format(fin_data['hi52']))
print('52-week low: {}'.format(fin_data['lo52']))
A derivative of this could integrated into the library assuming the other endpoint doesn't come back (and a better endpoint isn't found), though there are limitations of the normal endpoint, like it not supporting multiple quotes in the same request.
Can google be contacted for a solution? this was a pretty useful API.
This url will not work if you want to get the quotes for more than one stocks. https://finance.google.com/finance?q=AAPL,MSFT&output=json will not return any of the stock quotes
Also, a few ticker will not work with the above url
@bkcollection it's works but asking for a download. Do you know how to use it in javascript. Or how the print the output in browser window instead of download
The URLs such as https://finance.google.com/finance/info?client=ig&q=EURUSD now return the response:
httpserver.cc: Response Code 400
Has the Google Finance API changed?