Yahoo Finance API endpoint service was discontinued
antonalekseev opened this issue · 3 comments
Unfortunately, Yahoo Finance API endpoint http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv mentioned in https://github.com/cs50/docs/blob/d874daaf91ac96fbc64ae3be39b6d7ce3a59591b/_pages/problems/finance/finance.adoc#background and used by lookup() function in finance/helpers.py of Problem Set 7 is no longer available. download.finance.yahoo.com doesn't even resolve. Here is post by Yahoo support staff member which says:
UPDATE: It has come to our attention that this service is being used in violation of the Yahoo Terms of Service. As such, the service is being discontinued. For all future markets and equities data research, please refer to finance.yahoo.com. Thank you.
The docs should be updated to mention yahoo no longer works and that an alternative is being used in the code.
I got confused reading the directions because the page came back with error.
The API for this problem set has been rewritten to use a different service, and the specification has been updated accordingly.