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.

That's a pitty, indeed. So the last alternative is using the getQuandl-package which gets data from quandl. Running the sample script, btw, returns an error of the type: <output In regard to function start_date (package getQuandl): Warning: "$pd=1" obsolete use of "=" as Boolean test: please use "==" </output> Artur Am 18.05.2017 um 12:17 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti: > 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-the-new-Finance-page/td-p/40107 >> >> >> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/yahoo- finance?page=2&sort=active&pagesize=15 >> >> >> 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. > > ------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > Gretl-users mailing list > Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu > http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users > _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users