Move yfinance to Yahoo API | vs | recommend yahooquery #1420
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Assuming there's data parity with |
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I am already converting my program from
In fact |
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@JECSand Pulling this part of your comment out, I think should be a separate thread - how to handle immediate migration to API. Ideally we just tell users to switch to
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@ValueRaider Currently, yfinance has the largest userbase by far with 600K+ downloads/mo, according to PyPi. So I would be very careful to introduce any breaking changes or change how people interact with it (I'm still getting angry emails about the Re:
Given that What I think we should do is start a gradual move towards using Yahoo's API (official and unofficial) as opposed to introducing new dependencies (especially ones like Another thing that's been on my imagined "roadmap" is to integrate a storage mechanism (maybe with pystore?) to be optionally initialised using Re:
I've created an organization named financepy. How about we start by creating a project with some sort of a roadmap and plan this properly? |
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My 2 cents are that yahoo query has the data only in different formats it allows the scanner to use the A sort of Adapter, in some sense |
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Where
yfinance
obtains data through scraping webpages (basically everything except price history), the Python moduleyahooquery
uses the unofficial Yahoo API to fetch = faster and not encrypted.yfinance
could transition to this API, but isn't it better to just recommend users move toyahooquery
? GitHub, DocumentationWhy reinvent the wheel?
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