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 developed the following solution for this issue in Excel/VBA. The key challenge was the creation of the Crumb / Cookie pair. Once that is created you can re-use it for calls to Yahoo for the historical prices.

See here the key code for the Crumb / Cookie

Sub GetYahooRequest(strCrumb As String, strCookie As String)
'This routine will use a sample request to Yahoo to obtain a valid Cookie and Crumb

Dim strUrl                      As String: strUrl = "https://finance.yahoo.com/lookup?s=%7B0%7D"  
Dim objRequest                  As WinHttp.WinHttpRequest

Set objRequest = New WinHttp.WinHttpRequest

    With objRequest
        .Open "GET", strUrl, True
        .setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8"
        .send
        .waitForResponse
        strCrumb = strExtractCrumb(.responseText)
        strCookie = Split(.getResponseHeader("Set-Cookie"), ";")(0)
    End With

End Sub

See the following Yahoo Historical Price Extract on my website for a Sample Excel workbook that demonstrates how to extract Yahoo Historical prices