returnsyh command donwloads historical data for any ticker with historical data in Yahoo - Error

[Francois Durant]

Hi,

I am getting the following error with returnsyh command donwloads historical data for any ticker with historical data in Yahoo:

returnsyh AAPL MSFT GE GM WMT XOM, fm(1) fd(1) fy(2012) lm(12) ld(31) ly(2015) frequency(m) price(adjclose)

. returnsyh AAPL MSFT GE GM WMT XOM, fm(1) fd(1) fy(2012) lm(12) ld(31) ly(2015) frequency(m) price(adjclose)
Yahoo does not have the ticker AAPL or could not be reached
Please make sure you are online and/or redefine your range
Yahoo does not have the ticker MSFT or could not be reached
Please make sure you are online and/or redefine your range
Yahoo does not have the ticker GE or could not be reached
Please make sure you are online and/or redefine your range
Yahoo does not have the ticker GM or could not be reached
Please make sure you are online and/or redefine your range
Yahoo does not have the ticker WMT or could not be reached
Please make sure you are online and/or redefine your range
Yahoo does not have the ticker XOM or could not be reached
Please make sure you are online and/or redefine your range
no variables defined
r(111);

Does anyone know how to reach with yahoo server? Thanks.

[William Lisowski]

I believe that the Yahoo Finance API has been shut down.

[Francois Durant]

Any known alternative to it?

[Dario Maimone Ansaldo Patti]

If I am correct returnisyh is part of mvport command and the latter had problems with the yahoo finance API as William Lisowski said.

Nonetheless, the author of that command, Alberto Dorantes, developed a new command, getsymbols which works fine. You may want to use it.

[Francois Durant]

from Ssc install? how do you use "getsymbols"? Thanks.

[William Lisowski]

search getsymbols
ssc describe getsymbols
ssc install getsymbols
help getsymbols