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Raju58
Raju58

Reputation: 121

Yahoo finance API gives error 403 (forbidden) on old URL and User-Agent

One of the use cases I use Yahoo finance API for is to find out the earnings date for a given stock. This was working fine till about 7/2021 but started giving error 403 (forbidden).

After struggling a while, found that adding a {'User-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'} header would fix the issue. If you face a similar issue, you could try and see if it fixes for you too. Here is a sample screenshot:

>>> url="https://query2.finance.yahoo.com/v10/finance/quoteSummary/PYPL?modules=calendarEvents"
>>> r=requests.get(url)
>>> r
<Response [403]>
>>> r=requests.get(url, headers={'User-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'})
>>> r
<Response [200]>
>>> r.json()
{'quoteSummary': {'result': [{'calendarEvents': {'maxAge': 1, 'earnings': {'earningsDate': [{'raw': 1635764340, 'fmt': '2021-11-01'}, {'raw': 1636113600, 'fmt': '2021-11-05'}], 'earningsAverage': {'raw': 1.13, 'fmt': '1.13'}, 'earningsLow': {'raw': 0.97, 'fmt': '0.97'}, 'earningsHigh': {'raw': 1.27, 'fmt': '1.27'}, 'revenueAverage': {'raw': 6265160000, 'fmt': '6.27B', 'longFmt': '6,265,160,000'}, 'revenueLow': {'raw': 6041000000, 'fmt': '6.04B', 'longFmt': '6,041,000,000'}, 'revenueHigh': {'raw': 6539200000, 'fmt': '6.54B', 'longFmt': '6,539,200,000'}}, 'exDividendDate': {}, 'dividendDate': {}}}], 'error': None}}

Upvotes: 10

Views: 5269

Answers (4)

Paulo Berezini
Paulo Berezini

Reputation: 200

2024 nothing works

tried

"User-agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/108.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

m/v7/finance/download/MSFT?period1=946677600&period2=1704060000&interval=1mo&events=history&includeAdjustedClose=true

{"finance":{"result":null,"error":{"code":"forbidden","description":"User is unable to access this feature - ...."}}}

Yahoo Finance | API Feedback We’re sorry for the inconvenience, but API-level access to Yahoo Finance quotes data has been disabled.

Yahoo Finance licenses data from 3rd-party providers that do not currently authorize us to redistribute these data in API form. Licenses that authorize redistribution come with a greater cost that varies depending on a number of factors, including whether the data is for personal or commercial use, the type of data, the volume of queries, and additional features which may be available.

We would appreciate your feedback to ensure that we can continue to serve your needs. By understanding your intended use of these API data, we will be better able to acquire the appropriate licenses. We appreciate your feedback, and we read every response.

Upvotes: 1

small mammal
small mammal

Reputation: 700

This worked 14-Jan-2022. I Googled "what is my user agent" to get a user agent string. By adding a browser user agent string to the request I'm mimicking being a browser.

import requests
url='https://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v7/finance/download/TSLA'
headers = {
    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/108.0.0.0 Safari/537.36'
}
r = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
print(r.status_code)
print(r.content)

Upvotes: 2

Daniel Aben-Athar Bemerguy
Daniel Aben-Athar Bemerguy

Reputation: 515

I was facing a similar problem. Apparently two things have changed:

  1. they updated the URL
  2. they limit particular user agents (Matlab is explicitly rejected)

The URL as of 6/16/2021 is:

symbolString = 'TGT'; % look up Target prices as an example  
urlBase = 'https://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v7/finance/download/'; % base as of   6/16/2021
url = [urlBase,symbolString];

Then we explicitly set the user agent:

options = weboptions('UserAgent',''); # as of 6/16/2021 it is enough to submit a blank user agent

Upvotes: 9

bilucent
bilucent

Reputation: 108

you need to update your python package in your env:

pip install yahoo-fin -U

Upvotes: 1

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