Historical Yahoo Finance API On Fritz Again

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I've had a lot of success obtaining historical stock quotes using the Yahoo Finance API cookie/crumb method. It broke on April 28th, 2022, and using too many words to try to fix it hasn't worked.

As part of the retrieved cookie can be utilized to obtain actual historical data on subsequent usage of the historical Yahoo API, the strategy is to query an unreadable stock symbol. I've tested it with both real and unreadable stock symbols. I'm using Excel 2019 VBA, and the ".waitForResponse (10)" instruction seems to be where the debug hangs. It hangs on the initial instance and is a part of a loop. Below is a display of the code. It writes a zero on ws1.S10 correctly, but it is unable to carry out the "Next cook" instruction.  Did Yahoo intentionally break the Finance API again, or did Microsoft "improve" Excel? Or, more likely, did I do something stump stupid, like turn on the computer?

Sub HistUp()

Dim resultFromYahoo, csv_rows() As String
Dim objRequest
Dim resultArray As Variant
Dim eagle, nColumns, cook, iRows, iCols As Integer
Dim CSV_Fields As Variant
Dim ticker, tickerURL, cookie, crumb As String
Dim HistQuote, HistDiv, DefaultKey As String
Dim Curr, StartPer As String
Dim fox, sheep, bear, elk, wolf, raccoon, snake As Integer
Dim julian, ricky, bubbles As Double
Dim crumbStartPos, crumbEndPos, Lastrow1, Lastrow2 As Long

Set wb = ThisWorkbook
Set ws1 = wb.Worksheets(1)
Set ws2 = wb.Worksheets(2)
Set ws3 = wb.Worksheets(3)
Set ws4 = wb.Worksheets(4)
Set ws5 = wb.Worksheets(5)

Application.EnableEvents = False
Application.DisplayAlerts = False
eagle = ActiveSheet.Index
wb.Worksheets("Warn").Select
wb.Worksheets("Warn").Range("A1").Select
DoEvents

'getCookieCrumb
For cook = 0 To 5  'ask for a valid crumb 6 times
    ws1.Range("S10") = cook
    Set objRequest = CreateObject("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1")
    With objRequest
        .Open "GET", "https://finance.yahoo.com/lookup?s=turpitude", False
        .setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8"
        .send
        .waitForResponse (10)
        cookie = Split(.getResponseHeader("Set-Cookie"), ";")(0)
        crumbStartPos = InStrRev(.ResponseText, """crumb"":""") + 9
        crumbEndPos = crumbStartPos + 11
        crumb = Mid(.ResponseText, crumbStartPos, crumbEndPos - crumbStartPos)
    End With
    
    If Len(crumb) = 11 Then 'a valid crumb is 11 characters long
        Exit For
    End If
Next cook
Nov 17, 2022 in Others by Kithuzzz
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1 answer to this question.

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It appears that Yahoo updated its finance API. The code appears to function as previously when I delete out the line cookie = Split(.getResponseHeader("Set-Cookie"), ";")(0).

Additionally, when you send the request, comment out ".setRequestHeader "Cookie", Cookie." remainder of my code:

'CONSTRUCT THE URL:
'interval=1d or 1wk or 1mo, events=dividends or events=history (prices) or events=splits
    WebRequestURL = "https://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v7/finance/download/" & StockSymbol & _
        "?period1=" & UnixStartDate & "&period2=" & UnixEndDate & _
        "&interval=" & UrlInterval & "&events=" & UrlEvents & "&crumb=" & Crumb

'FETCH THE DATA:
    With WebRequest
        .Open "GET", WebRequestURL, False
        '.setRequestHeader "Cookie", Cookie
        .Send
        .waitForResponse (10)
    End With
answered Nov 17, 2022 by narikkadan
• 63,680 points

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