I am getting "rate limited" error with yfinance, is this temporary?

[manojjthomas]

Error - YFRateLimitError('Too Many Requests. Rate limited. Try after a while.')

Wondering if this blacklisting is temporary or permanent? Its been more than 24hrs now. I am planning to limit the frequency of calls if this gets resolved.

Thanks.

[Lemeri123]

Yeah, the "rate limited" error with yfinance is usually temporary. Yahoo tends to block IPs for a while if too many requests are made in a short time. Since it's already been over 24 hours, the block might be a bit longer than usual, but it's not permanent. Reducing your request frequency and adding delays between calls should help avoid this in the future. You might also consider using a different IP or waiting a bit longer to see if access is restored.

[lioncap55]

issue closed on my side by updating. However, still no clue what are rates limits

[dbeeton]

I am being blocked when I havent used yfinance in ages in jupyter notebook with the following query:
import yfinance as yf

stock = yf.Ticker("CBA.AX")
info = stock.get_info() # Explicitly fetch info once

print(info.get("lastPrice"))
print(info.get("yearHigh"))
print(info.get("marketCap"))

Any thoughts

[laonong6999]

Sounds other peoples complaining about "Rate Limited" issue is tailing down, but I am still getting this problem even with the version yfinance-0.2.61. When I download Yahoo's data from China through a VPN, the problem persists. Meanwhile, downloading the same data from a native U.S. PC withoug any VPN is okay.

Is there any plan to fix this in future versions of yfinance?

[ValueRaider]

Sounds like Yahoo blocking your VPN.

[laonong6999]

Anyone knows what VPN is not blocked by Yahoo then?

[fja05680]

I implemented a throttle limiter into my code. I found that I could make about 100 requests, then I needed to delay for 30 seconds before making another request, then repeat this pattern.

As of today though, I can't make any requests :(

[fja05680]

I updated my code to use the HEAD, which includes PR #2430 that addresses this issue. It didn't fully fix it though. yf.download() still doesn't work.

[EugeneAckerman101]

Same issue. Seems to be a rate limiter as the data I download using this patch only gets up to 33% before hanging. Any ideas?

[igor555]

I am having the same issue. Just used yfinance for the first time in 3-4 weeks and on the first ticket I am getting the error

yfinance JSONDecodeError DAILY, retyring
Too Many Requests. Rate limited. Try after a while.
ticker: BBP

has anyone been able to solve this?

[igor555]

seems like its back to working...for now

[diomare]

I have an application to test and I can't connect to yfinance: Error loading data: "No data downloaded Please try again later or check your internet connection." Does anyone know if the interruption is temporary or permanent?

[yunhongz]

yfinance.exceptions.YFRateLimitError: Too Many Requests. Rate limited. Try after a while. We have this rate limit again, too bad.