Hi all
maybe you know, last tuesday Yahoo finance denied automated download of
historical data, putting a mandatory "ID cookie" in the query of
download.
The good news
It seems to me the "ID cookie" is unique for every query caming from a
single browser.
E.G. I opened another browser in my machine and the cookie changed, BUT
when I asked another series of data, did not.
I find this right now, so I dont know if the "ID cookie" changes day by
day.
I think a rough way to bypass the restriction is quite simple.
a) Manually find the our own "ID cookie" (EG going with the mouse over
the download link, then reading the last part of the syntiax of the
query, at the bottom of windows )
b) put it in the query
The bad news
I cant write the changes by myself and so giving a service to the
community.
So please, could somebody verify my hypothesis and - if the trick is
good - writing the additional code, inserting a new voice in the yahoo
download menu (EG "Enter your cookie")? Could be sufficent BUT
moreover I suggest to delay in some way two successive query, to avoid
more stringent measures from Yahoo.
Regards
Guido