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Yahoo Finance recently changed its historical data URLs from http to https. For example, here is the URL to obtain the maximum history for IBM (as of today, 2017-05-29):
When I try to read this resource from within R I get the following:
The download works fine when invoked manually through the browser, so it's not like Yahoo Finance is trying to prevent access to the data. Evidently, the browser is sending some secret sauce to the Yahoo server. Can I send the same secret sauce through an R script?
2 Answers
I think Yahoo did away with its API a few months ago. If you want an Excel solution, you can download a sample file from the link titled 'Get Excel Spreadsheet to Download Bulk Historical Stock Data from Google Finance'
For R, do something like this.
Yahoo Finance Download Stock Quotes
Current version of 'free' Deriscope downloads both historical data and live feeds from YF.