Yahoo! Finance Changes Stock Data Download URL

dots Posted on September 5, 2007 , filed under Stocks | Print This Post

Some readers may notice some strange things going on when they view their favorite stock blogs. My own blog, Raw Greed, and a number of other blogs use plugins that are powered by Yahoo! Finance. Yahoo! decided to change the stock data download url leaving many blogs with the message “the document has moved” when trying to view stock quotes or stock charts generated by plugins. Graciously some developers like Andrew Hill, that created the plugin that powers my portfolio picks in the sidebar have updated their plugins very quickly.

I’m sure some other publishers that use Yahoo! Finance powered plugins are having some difficulties unless their plugins were updated to reflect the address change. I just wish Yahoo! would keep track of services that use the stock data download url and inform developers with a prominent notice on the Yahoo! Finance page that they are making technical changes. A notice after hours would have been very practical and saved some publishers like me a tiny bit of angst.

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