Likely the case. The expense of collating all that data and presenting it to
their site visitors is considerable. They use advertising to cover those
costs. If the data were easily scrapable, scrapers diminish revenue, putting
the resource itself at risk.
Some data provides offer APIs. When
Yes.
put url "https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/quote/SHEL.L/history/";
In the message box on 9.6.11 and 9.6.12 under Windows 11. Both return a
pile of HTML text that is all the formatting and CSS linked stuff to
show a "404" page.
This suggests that put URL is working and it is the Yahoo server
Did you try that in the message box?
Bob S
> On Jun 28, 2024, at 10:50 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> I get a response from Yahoos that is an html page with a 404 information as
> part of it.
>
> This happens under LC 9.6.12 and 9.6.11
>
> I think this is Yahoo Finance not
I get a response from Yahoos that is an html page with a 404 information
as part of it.
This happens under LC 9.6.12 and 9.6.11
I think this is Yahoo Finance not being able to detect the browser type
and intentionally returning a 404 as a method of deterring screen scraping.
On 6/28/2024 1:
I get the HTML of the page. Are you trying to open the page in a browser?
Bob S
> On Jun 28, 2024, at 10:04 AM, Hugh Senior via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
>
> Platform: Windows 11, LC 9.6.12
> Query: Using URL to access a web page
>
> Problem:
> Enter "https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/quote/SHEL.
