TypeError: string indices must be integers

[pupuyoyo]

First, thanks for writing this great financial functions for python. However, when I run the library, the following error message appeared.

import ffn
prices = ffn.get('aapl,msft', start='2010-01-01')

TypeError Traceback (most recent call last)
~\AppData\Local\Temp/ipykernel_30212/2674933125.py in
----> 1 prices = ffn.get('aapl,msft', start='2010-01-01')

~\anaconda3\envs\invest\lib\site-packages\decorator.py in fun(*args, **kw)
230 if not kwsyntax:
231 args, kw = fix(args, kw, sig)
--> 232 return caller(func, *(extras + args), **kw)
233 fun.name = func.name
234 fun.doc = func.doc

~\anaconda3\envs\invest\lib\site-packages\ffn\utils.py in _memoize(func, *args, **kw)
32 return cache[key]
33 else:
---> 34 cache[key] = result = func(*args, **kw)
35 return result
36

~\anaconda3\envs\invest\lib\site-packages\ffn\data.py in get(tickers, provider, common_dates, forward_fill, clean_tickers, column_names, ticker_field_sep, mrefresh, existing, **kwargs)
74 # call provider - check if supports memoization
75 if hasattr(provider, "mcache"):
---> 76 data[ticker] = provider(ticker=t, field=f, mrefresh=mrefresh, **kwargs)
77 else:
78 data[ticker] = provider(ticker=t, field=f, **kwargs)

~\anaconda3\envs\invest\lib\site-packages\decorator.py in fun(*args, **kw)
230 if not kwsyntax:
231 args, kw = fix(args, kw, sig)
--> 232 return caller(func, *(extras + args), **kw)
233 fun.name = func.name
234 fun.doc = func.doc

~\anaconda3\envs\invest\lib\site-packages\ffn\utils.py in _memoize(func, *args, **kw)
32 return cache[key]
33 else:
---> 34 cache[key] = result = func(*args, **kw)
35 return result
36

~\anaconda3\envs\invest\lib\site-packages\ffn\data.py in yf(ticker, field, start, end, mrefresh)
138 field = "Adj Close"
139
--> 140 tmp = pdata.get_data_yahoo(ticker, start=start, end=end)
141
142 if tmp is None:

~\anaconda3\envs\invest\lib\site-packages\pandas_datareader\data.py in get_data_yahoo(*args, **kwargs)
78
79 def get_data_yahoo(*args, **kwargs):
---> 80 return YahooDailyReader(*args, **kwargs).read()
81
82

~\anaconda3\envs\invest\lib\site-packages\pandas_datareader\base.py in read(self)
251 # If a single symbol, (e.g., 'GOOG')
252 if isinstance(self.symbols, (string_types, int)):
--> 253 df = self._read_one_data(self.url, params=self._get_params(self.symbols))
254 # Or multiple symbols, (e.g., ['GOOG', 'AAPL', 'MSFT'])
255 elif isinstance(self.symbols, DataFrame):

~\anaconda3\envs\invest\lib\site-packages\pandas_datareader\yahoo\daily.py in _read_one_data(self, url, params)
151 try:
152 j = json.loads(re.search(ptrn, resp.text, re.DOTALL).group(1))
--> 153 data = j["context"]["dispatcher"]["stores"]["HistoricalPriceStore"]
154 except KeyError:
155 msg = "No data fetched for symbol {} using {}"

TypeError: string indices must be integers

Hope you can help to fix it. Thanks again!

[timkpaine]

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