examples are broken due to Yahoo

[xiaoronglv]

Lots of examples are requesting yahoo finance, but this api is discontinued by Yahoo.

so the following examples doesn't work for newbies. Could you please replace yahoo?

Many thanks.

require 'concurrent'
require 'thread'   # for Queue
require 'open-uri' # for open(uri)

class Ticker
  def get_year_end_closing(symbol, year)

    uri = "http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=#{symbol}&a=11&b=01&c=#{year}&d=11&e=31&f=#{year}&g=m"
    puts uri
    data = open(uri) {|f| f.collect{|line| line.strip } }
    data[1].split(',')[4].to_f
  end
end

Reference

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

URI

http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=TWTR&a=11&b=01&c=2013&d=11&e=31&f=2013&g=m

[pitr-ch]

Thanks, we'll fix it.

[GustavoCaso]

I'm going to have a look at this one 😄

[pitr-ch]

Thanks, @GustavoCaso!

[pitr-ch]

@GustavoCaso are you still looking into this? If not please let me know.