Re: [Gretl-users] bad news about yahoo finance
On Thu, 18 May 2017, guido giaume wrote:
Hi all
it seems yahoo download policies are suddenly changed.
https://forums.yahoo.net/t5/Yahoo-Finance-help/Do-you-have-feedback-on-th...
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/yahoo-finance?page=2&sort=...
creating lots of unhappy people.
It looks as if this is it. The syntax of the query has changed; this
wouldn't be bad in itself, except for the fact that in order to download
csv data, the server now requests a cookie, which obviously I wouldn't
know how to generate automatically.
Oh well, it was nice till it lasted.
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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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