Yahoo Finance API changes (2017)

First, the old Yahoo finance iChart download is gone for good. In one of the forum posts, a Yahoo employee has confirmed that the free EOD data has been terminated, and will not be reintroduced. Check out this thread and look for reply from Nixon. Yahoo is recently acquired by Verizon, and it must be the new direction.

However, if you check the Yahoo financial page, the CSV download link works, though differently now. It is through a new API that uses an authentication token "crumb" that is linked to a cookie when you access the page.

So there is a work-around to get the same CSV download as before through this new API. I have put together some quick Python3 code. Please check out GitHub for source code yahoo_quote_download.

As Ashley Davis mentioned in the comments section of the question above, the new way to go is through Alpha Vantage, at least when one is looking for free historical data. Their web service is very well documented and straight forward.

For those of you who are looking to import the data into Excel, I have written an api that I make available for free. Here is the Excel spreadsheet

Addendum as of Aug 2018: Current version of Deriscope supports retrieval of both historical data and live feeds from YF.

For Australian investors, here is an alternative to yahoo finance api:

www.biglion.com.au