The url as in Norman’s post is the same format as the url generated when you do a download from a browser. Obviously I am close, but am doing something dumb please if you can respond for a dummy. Now when I do the same, the Content is only: “?” Normally in the old days before the recent troubles (and for many many years before) the file of historical data would be found at https(my name for the SecureSocket) / Page Received / Content (a string of all the data). (This is with RealStudio, now Xojo, where I am using an HTTPSecureSocket) However, when I insert the Crumb and Cookie into the url (as with Norman above) and execute: If I solve the stupid problem below, I know how I can insert code at the top of my programs so the the Cookie can be updated each time I run a program. Note over several days the Crumb has not changed, whereas the Cookie has changed at least once. Let me give an update.įor the last several days I have been trying the url as in Norman’s post, where I get the Crumb by going to the Yahoo site for a generic download thru the browser and hovering (or right clicking) over the “Download” button and I get the Cookie from the header that comes back from https.Get (generic url). Thank you for your attention and responses. Hope this help a bit and you can get this to work in Xojo. I also tested the Xojo’s HTMLviewer and VB6’s WebBrowser controls after the cookie was created with IE and all download works. Then extract the “&crumb=whatEverHere” part and append it to the download URL and the download works. So I launch IE (no need to be default browser), went to Yahoo Finance symbol historical page so to get the cookie created into the IE cache, right-click on the “Download Data” link and “Copy Shortcut”.
My affected software are still VB6 and using Wininet.dll API to download and this morning suddenly had a spark that tell me why not use IE to get the cookie and the crumb since IE also uses Wininet.dll and with Wininet.dll in my software it might look for things that is IE’s. I use Chrome as the default browser and something I found out today. I have been trying and searching for a work around for past 2 weeks, trying how to learn how to get an in-memory cookie (still not knowing how) to test whether it would work. Even their community YQL do not work any more.
I too have software than download data from Yahoo and was like you affected by the new direction Yahoo has taken with shutting down their Finance API.
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