Yahoo Finance Historical data downloader url is not working

Question

I have used the following url to fetch the historical data from yahoo finance. From last 16th May, 2017 the url is not working.

http://real-chart.finance.yahoo.com/t

Answer 1

I have wrote a lightweight script that pulls together alot of the suggestions in this thread to fix this problem. https://github.com/AndrewRPorter/yahoo-historical

However, there are much better solutions such as, https://github.com/ranaroussi/fix-yahoo-finance

Hope these resources help!