To get right to the point here I've wirtten a routine, nearly exactly what you show below, to grab data from yahoo finance.
There are plethora of utilities available over internet to download free stock data, but most of them are outdated or demo versions.
Yahoo only let you download data either csv or text file format, text file might not good neither since the format really hard to straight out.
However, Yahoo Finance has opened URLs of a web service that returns historical and intraday prices in JSON.
An Excel VBA driven solution to download time series data from financial markets for multiple symbols.
Unfortunately, Yahoo Finance API does not work anymore in the way data are capture in your current VBA.
Through VBA, I'd like to be able to download CSV files for every stock in my list, which could change, and compile the data from all CSV files into one large Access table.
The following VBA macro code can then be loaded through the VBA editor and executed from the spreadsheet to return the data.
We are going to show you how to automatically import historical stock data directly using Yahoo Finance API, but without having to download the file locally before importing it (as shown in the previous chapter).
If you open the task management window while you run it, you will see that there are only two things will open: EXCEL and ACCESS, and they are pretty slow especially when you have another or any excel worksheet open.
The error could happen because the symbol is invalid or maybe there is no data (ie, the recordset or excel file downloaded is empty).
Try to modify, add and remove the different parameters and their value to get a better understanding on how the Yahoo Finance API behaves.
Does this macro workbook get around Yahoo's limit on how many (about 200) different symbols you can retrieve data on at once.
Unfortunately the Yahoo Finance interface used in this application has several shortcomings and bugs.
If you need an intraday history for a larger period, there is only the way to download the data daily and create such history yourself.
Yahoo Finance API for Historical Stock Data is working, which implies to first learn how URL (Uniform Resource Locator) are built and used to access content on the Web.
Initially did change the formulas, but eventually, it was further led to having formulas replaced by using VBA codes to do the calculations and put into the various cells.
If you take your spreadsheet and put in some stocks, for example LOW or HCN, the Yahoo downloaded data to the right of the stock name is shifted to the right one column.
Now, the last step is to provide a dashboard in Excel so that users can directly interact with Yahoo Finance, without having to work with VBA.
Do you know if you can download the Forward Annual Dividend Field that is found on the Key Statistics tab at Yahoo Finance?
Downloader for Fundamentals APIWe have created an Excel VBA example for easy downloading our Fundamental data in JSON.
Multiple download sources are integrated with optional API key specification options: Yahoo Finance, IEX Global, Quandl (optional API key), and Alpha Vantage (required API key freely available).
