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Is Yahoo! Finance data good or bad now?
What has changed
The API is gone. The new downloads need 1st to parse the Yahoo Finance page to find a hidden crumb and use it as the key for data retrieval over a 2nd URL.
The adjusted close is ...
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How can one query the Google Finance API for Dow Jones and S&P 500 values?
This is not something you will want to hear, but most free websites have licensing issues and display limited or no download links for S&P and DJI.
I recommend you use quantdl or stooq instead.
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Google Finance API, how to retrieve identical ticker symbols in python on two exchanges
Technically speaking, you can include the exchange code along with the symbol. For example, for INFY on NYSE, you can do:
web.DataReader('NYSE:INFY', 'google')
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Conversion stock symbols Google Finance vs. Reuters
There isn't a reliable mechanism. Some things to think about:
It's common for venues to abuse the security reference of the primary venue to mean anywhere that this security is traded. So - for some ...
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Did Google Finance API Go Away or Just Change Signature?
These URLs should not have changed. Note, however, that you may sometimes get one of these I'm not a robot captchas.
So if you are loading the returned data ...
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Is Yahoo! Finance data good or bad now?
No. I’m watching the management of a penny stock manipulate its share price by announcing a reverse stock split and yahoo hasn’t adjusted its prices going on a week and a half. The algorithms thinks ...
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How can one query the Google Finance API for Dow Jones and S&P 500 values?
if you reference these actual index name it works
INDEXSP:.INX
INDEXDJX:.DJI
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How can one query the Google Finance API for Dow Jones and S&P 500 values?
Symbol for DJIA is ".DJI" (without the quotes but with the leading period)
https://www.google.com/finance/historical?q=.DJI&startdate=Jun+01%2C+2017&output=txt
Symbol for NASDAQ is ".IXIC" (...
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How can one query the Google Finance API for Dow Jones and S&P 500 values?
The wsj website lets you download csv data for DJI. If you play around a little bit, you can figure out the url query to kick off a download. The, you can use Powershell to make the download ...
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Downloading S&P historical data from Google
You can't download the S&P data from Google finance like you can with stock or ETF data.
If you navigate to https://www.google.com/finance/historical?q=NYSEARCA%3ASPY&ei=L-...
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Google Finance API, how to retrieve identical ticker symbols in python on two exchanges
interestingly enough, using yahoo with the right ticker symbol does give you the European prices
web.DataReader('INFY.PA', 'yahoo')
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How can one query the Google Finance API for Dow Jones and S&P 500 values?
Pandas DataReader (separate library to Pandas) works with Yahoo finance (not google finance).
Installation: pip install pandas_datareader
Code: I just run the below to get the SPX data between 2010 ...
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How google finance calculates beta of a stock
Google uses the 1 factor CAPM model developed by Fama French (1974). Its a simple linear regression with the stock as dependent variable and the market portfolio as independent
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