Library no longer works since 18 Feb

[HoustonDad]

I've been using this library for years, and we noticed that it stopped pulling tickers on 18 Feb 2025, probably due to a Yahoo change.

    try:
        ticker = await OHLC.fetch(symbol=stockname)
        return ticker
    except Exception as e:
        raise Exception(f"No stock found by the name {stockname}: {e}")

ERROR - Shortname does not exist for spy: No stock found by the name spy: Yahoo Finance API error - Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

[ttamg]

Hi @HoustonDad .

I'm not using the library anymore so it's not being maintained, however I did a bit of digging and the Yahoo API now requires a User-Agent in the headers. I've made a quick fix for this and pushed up a new version 0.1.4 to PyPi. Tests seem to pass and it operates now. I hope that does it. Thanks

https://pypi.org/project/yahoo_finance_async/#history

[HoustonDad]

Good morning @ttamg!

Thank you so much, confirmed it's working!