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Yahoo finance recently discontinued their API. I have been looking for alternatives. The ones I've found so far are Google Finance and Quandl.
Google Finance was deprecated in 2011 but still appears to work somewhat. However, there is little to no documentation, and I need to pull dividend data which I was unable to find.
Quandl appears to work well but the data is spread across multiple databases which makes getting appropriate access timely and costly.
Does anyone know of any other viable alternatives?
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Yahoo Finance API is Discontinued. Here is your Top 10 Yahoo Finance API Alternatives. Yahoo's finance API was a good choice.
Sites like SeekingAlpha.com, Benzinga.com and Investing.com are excellent alternatives to Yahoo Finance for market news and research.
A: Yahoo Finance API was removed in 2017 following potential cost cutting by the Yahoo team.
A simple Python async API wrapper for the deprecated (but currently still working) Yahoo Finance API. Although the Yahoo Finance API has officially been closed down, it does still work and it provides a free access to a vast number of stocks.
Alpha Vantage have real-time intraday as well as historical daily time series in JSON format. Accessing the data requires an API key but it is free.
Caveat: I have not yet used Alpha Vantage myself. The focus of my work requires long daily data series and for that Quandl (or, while it lasted, Yahoo) is better because (unlike Alpha Vantage) it provides both split-adjusted and un-adjusted data, which is helpful for tracking corporate actions etc.
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