Benny-/Yahoo-ticker-symbol-downloader

Program cannot download data

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RafaBarneto commented

Since last week, the program is unable to access the yahoo finance data; retry 5 times the request and finally get a 404 Client error.
Is there any change in yahoo access?, how can I solve this?.
Anyone knows alternative ways for getting tickers symbols for free?
Attach the terminal output.
error.docx

RobinTTY commented

It appears to me they may have banned the user_agent defined in SimpleSymbolDownloader.py:

Yahoo-ticker-symbol-downloader/ytd/SimpleSymbolDownloader.py

Line 9 in 3058357

user_agent = 'yahoo-ticker-symbol-downloader'

If you change the user agent to something else the script will work. I noticed though that it will also fail again after some time, so the API may be limiting excessive requests.

RafaBarneto commented
RobinTTY commented

If you haven't tried yet you can take a look at https://github.com/shilewenuw/get_all_tickers. Maybe that works.

RafaBarneto commented
RafaBarneto commented
RobinTTY commented

You can find a solution here as far as I can see, I didn't try it myself though: shilewenuw/get_all_tickers#15

RafaBarneto commented
kyi87 commented

I got the same Problem when i use the script:

Invocation:

py YahooTickerDownloader.py

Error:

404 Client Error: Not Found for url: https://finance.yahoo.com/_finance_doubledown/api/resource/searchassist;searchTerm=b?device=console&returnMeta=true

Is there are solution yet?

Thanks.

RafaBarneto commented