On 5/6/23 17:51, David G. Pickett wrote:

Yeah, it's back.??
>     - Is Yahoo aware of their server rejects???
    - Is there some magic cookie or such we need to be authorized??
>       Many previous fixes proposed, which did not seem to prevent
>       its return!

I don't believe the APIs F::Q uses in the YahooJSON.pm module are meant for general public use. Yes, they are calls made when finance.yahoo.com web pages load, but I'm thinking that Yahoo is trying to use CORs filters, cookies, and other mechanisms to limit access.

Who's to say that after spending time to change the module to utilize a different URL, it also doesn't start returning errors because Yahoo is securing how people can fetch the securities data.

Companies pay big $$ for realtime access to the securities data, and with that comes licensing and limitations on how it can be shared, resold, etc. That is why you see many companies use API keys, and the freely available keys have limited access. Years ago (late 1980s, early 1990s) I worked for a company that paid for a satellite feed from Comstock I believe. It was data for our services provided to a few securities and financial services companies. It was my project to write the collection and parsing programs on Unix/Linux when we first purchased that feed.

- Bruce S.
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