Can't install YStockData.jl in Julia 1.4

Question

I am trying to add the Yahoo Finance package YStockData.jl to Julia 1.4 without success. The package's page at JuliaObserver says

This package is not yet in the official package repository. Therefore, to install, use the following invocation Pkg.clone("https://github.com/Algocircle/YStockData.jl")

However, this fails with the following:

UndefVarError: clone not defined

(Is Pkg.clone no longer working?) So I tried

Pkg.add(PackageSpec(url="https://github.com/Algocircle/YStockData.jl"))

which caused this response:

Updating git-repo https://github.com/Algocircle/YStockData.jl

could not find project file in package at https://github.com/Algocircle/YStockData.jl

So now what? This project was last updated three years ago.

I found a similar result trying to install Quandl which can also download financial data--missing project file.

How do others download financial data with Julia?

Answer 1

One new option to do this in Julia is to use Alpha Vantage through the AlphaVantage.jl package.