[GNC] Yahoo Closed the Door on Finance API

[Tom Teixeira]

The YahooWeb module mostly works for me except for some reason it gives 
a ridiculously high value for AT&T (call sign T). I switched that to 
"Motley Fool" which is a different screen scraping source under 'Type of 
source quote' 'Single'.

On 7/14/23 8:50 AM, Bart A.J. Seesing via gnucash-user wrote:
> The latest release of F::Q (1.57) contains a new YahooWeb module that 
> still works, at least for my selection of European ETFs. Install that 
> release if you haven't done so already, go to Tools > Security Editor, 
> edit your security, change 'Type of source quote' to 'Unknown', and 
> select 'yahooweb' from the dropdown list.
>
> Sincerely,
> B
>
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> Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2023 10:49:27 +0200
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> Subject: [GNC] Yahoo Closed the Door on Finance API
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> Any suggestions as to what would be the next best currently available 
> source in F::Q for a broad spectrum of securities, especially European 
> stocks?
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> Some of us suspected this would come, getting reports of the Yahoo 
> URLhttps://query2.finance.yahoo.com/v11/finance/quoteSummary/AAPL?modules=price,summaryDetail,defaultKeyStatistics 
>
> andhttps://query2.finance.yahoo.com/v10/finance/quoteSummary/AAPL?modules=price,summaryDetail,defaultKeyStatistics 
> now returning a 404 (v11) or "Unauthorized" (v10).
>
> Sorry to say this, but more than likely the YahooJSON module (aka 
> yahoo_json) is going to be removed from Finance::Quote in the next 
> release. This is not to say that if someone can figure out a way to 
> successfully access Yahoo'shttps://query2.finance.yahoo.com/v?... 
> APIs, please pass on that info or better yet, have a go at reworking 
> the current module.
>
> There is already an issue raised on F::Q's 
> GitHub,https://github.com/finance-quote/finance-quote/issues/318. 
> Please refrain from "me too" comments. Unfortunately as I said in the 
> previous paragraph, this issue will likely be resolved by removing the 
> module.
>
> Bruce S.
>
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