bradlucas / get-yahoo-quotes-python

A Python script to download Yahoo quotes using the new cookie authorized site.

get-yahoo-quotes-python

A Python script to download Yahoo quotes which works with the new cookie authorized page.

This repo has an associated blog post available here:

http://blog.bradlucas.com/posts/2017-06-03-yahoo-finance-quote-download-python/

Create a virtual environment

$ virtualenv env
$ source ./env/bin/activiate
$ pip install requests

Usage

Run the script with the symbol you'd like as a parameter. The script will download to a cvs file named with the symbol.

python get-yahoo-quotes.py SYMBOL

get-yahoo-quotes-python's Issues

#4

thanks a lot

save hundreds of hours to me.

thanks again

TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'

Hi there! Thank you for the code. I tried to use it but I keep getting this error:

Downloading AAPL to AAPL.csv
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "get-yahoo-quotes.py", line 96, in
download_quotes(symbol)
File "get-yahoo-quotes.py", line 83, in download_quotes
cookie, crumb = get_cookie_crumb(symbol)
File "get-yahoo-quotes.py", line 57, in get_cookie_crumb
cookie, lines = get_page_data(symbol)
File "get-yahoo-quotes.py", line 52, in get_page_data
lines = r.content.strip().replace('}', '\n')
TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'

Any idea on what's going on?

How do I set a start and end date

When I try to delete the rows I don't want, it fails to work with PyAlgoTrade... Is there anyway to specify a Start and End date when grabbing the data?

Thanks