This is in the context of an open source command line downloader application written in Python that I've done some minor work on over the last couple of months.

3) which will now directly fetch quotes from the HTML quotes web page. Given that I actually use the ^DJI data for some of my models etc, I eventually spent an hour or 2 today writing a page scraper for the normal quotes page (e.g. Anyway, as I say, 2) also stopped working recently which left me with the frustration of not being able to keep my datasets/models updated automatically.

As an aside, 2) had the benefit that it would in fact allow you to retrieve more data than was apparently available via either 1) or 3), for example, you could retrieve data all the way back to 1928 using method 2), but I digress.

I know this because I've been using it and it stopped working (as it turned out) about a week ago. It turns out that while 1) has been blocked for ^DJI and some others since Aug 2011 as metioned by Mario Fernandez, 2) was actually still working until just the other day. They are:ġ) is the one the OP listed, 2) is effectively the 'download' link that you get below the web page display of quotes and 3) is the normal historical price quote webpage URL.

I know this question has been answered some time ago but I've recently run into this ^DJI and Yahoo! quotes issue again due to another change at Yahoo! and have come up with a solution that might help the OP and anyone else who reaches this page as a result of a search.Īs a bit of background please note that there's several URL's that may conceivably be used to download historical quote data from Yahoo.

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