Google Finance API change?

The URLs such as https://finance.google.com/finance/info?client=ig&q=EURUSD now return the response:

httpserver.cc: Response Code 400

Has the Google Finance API changed?

[leikahing]

It seems like that endpoint itself has changed or gone away (temporarily? permanently? can’t say), which is the unfortunate nature of this system since it has no official API anymore.

I helped someone on StackOverflow with a ‘workaround’ of basically parsing the full response to get information.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/46081537/297696

Code from answer below:

import json
import requests

rsp = requests.get('https://finance.google.com/finance?q=AAPL&output=json')
if rsp.status_code in (200,):

    # This magic here is to cut out various leading characters from the JSON 
    # response, as well as trailing stuff (a terminating ']\n' sequence), and then
    # we decode the escape sequences in the response
    # This then allows you to load the resulting string
    # with the JSON module.
    fin_data = json.loads(rsp.content[6:-2].decode('unicode_escape'))

    # print out some quote data
    print('Opening Price: {}'.format(fin_data['op']))
    print('Price/Earnings Ratio: {}'.format(fin_data['pe']))
    print('52-week high: {}'.format(fin_data['hi52']))
    print('52-week low: {}'.format(fin_data['lo52']))

A derivative of this could integrated into the library assuming the other endpoint doesn’t come back (and a better endpoint isn’t found), though there are limitations of the normal endpoint, like it not supporting multiple quotes in the same request.

[bkcollection]

This url will not work if you want to get the quotes for more than one stocks. https://finance.google.com/finance?q=AAPL,MSFT&output=json will not return any of the stock quotes

Also, a few ticker will not work with the above url

1. currency such as CURRENCY:USDEUR
2. Last trade time missing