Originally published at: Beyond Yahoo Finance API: Alternatives for Financial Data
Yahoo Finance’s API is the forefather of all the financial APIs that exist in the market right now. Before the introduction of Yahoo Finance’s API, people followed the traditional method of downloading CSV data from specific websites which was both tiresome and inefficient. But Yahoo Finance API revolutionized this process by offering a variety of readily available API endpoints that were easily accessible. Though Yahoo Finance’s official API library was discontinued long back, it’s still preferred by a lot of people thanks to some of its famous unofficial libraries like yfinance, Yahoo Fin, etc. Today, we will explore what this API actually is, its pros and cons, and more importantly, the alternatives. Register & Get Data What is Yahoo Finance…
