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I would like to d/l price info (price, date/time, etc) for a group of about 10 specific stocks and mutual funds. I've used yahoo.com for several years, but they've changed formats several times w/o warning, forcing me to revise my processing. It's frustrating. I would like to find a good, solid, established, easy-to-use source.
@Tiger: You can also set up a portfolio at M* and it will report daily data for funds and market-delayed data for stocks. I know what you mean about formatting changes. If you are downloading to a spreadsheet which has been built for a particular input format, it is a real pain when they change that format.
Here is a workaround for this situation: In your spreadsheet, setup a "translator" section which will accept the input in the differing format, and reorganize it into the formatting which your actual calculation input wants to see. I had to do this when I changed from using Google data to M* data. Ironically, I made that change because of the same issues at Google that you are seeing at Yahoo.
Take the "translator" output and copy/paste into the calculating input, using "paste values only" or a similar function. You can actually build a couple of "translators" tailored to different input sources, so that you can then use any of a number of available data sources.
Tiger, I feel your pain. The new yahoo portfolio view is an abomination that even Fidelity or M* would have a hard time beating and their tech departments are garbage.
I had been using some saved quotes under //finance.yahoo.com/quotes/xxx,xxx,etc. and recently it no longer worked. I found if I used https: instead of http: it worked again. The format is different now, but at least it gives me a list of current prices.
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Regards,
Ted
https://www.google.com/finance
Here is a workaround for this situation: In your spreadsheet, setup a "translator" section which will accept the input in the differing format, and reorganize it into the formatting which your actual calculation input wants to see. I had to do this when I changed from using Google data to M* data. Ironically, I made that change because of the same issues at Google that you are seeing at Yahoo.
Take the "translator" output and copy/paste into the calculating input, using "paste values only" or a similar function. You can actually build a couple of "translators" tailored to different input sources, so that you can then use any of a number of available data sources.
http://investexcel.net/multiple-stock-quote-downloader-for-excel/