Yahoo! Finance Fetch Issue - Couldn't Resolve it

Hi,

I followed the instructions on:

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/335949-datafeed-returns-an-error-using-fetch-function?s_tid=answers_rc1-3_p3_Topic

and downloaded the files from:

https://www.mathworks.com/support/bugreports/1571158

The files are fetch.m and yahoo.p, not yahoo.m. Is that correct?

Also, I put them into @yahoo and it still doesn't work.

The error is (still): "Error using yahoo/fetch (line 387) Unable to return historical data for given security."

I tried getting 2017a, but it hasn't been fixed there.

Any advice would be helpful.

[Walter Roberson]

This is not the problem that was addressed in the bug report you indicate. Yahoo made another change, and Mathworks has not caught up yet.

[duvnoo222]

@Walter - So is there anything I can do in the meantime? Is there another source of financial data to work with?

[Walter Roberson]

Sorry, I do not know.

[Shubham Srivastava]

The below post on the Yahoo Community Forum seems to suggest that the services have been stopped and may not be continued.

https://forums.yahoo.net/t5/Yahoo-Finance-help/Is-Yahoo-Finance-API-broken/td-p/250503/page/3

Answer 1

[Christopher Reeves]

Yahoo seems to have changed their API

I could not figure out how to query from their new API so the new script uses google instead.

Here is the code https://github.com/creeveshft/matlabfunctions/blob/master/GetHistoricGoogle.m

Cheers!

-Chris Reeves