Migration Guide

The Yahoo Finance API Alternative

There is no official Yahoo Finance API — the scraped endpoints break, rate-limit, and change without notice. Eulerpool is the documented, stable, free-tier replacement.

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Why you're here

Libraries like yfinance hit undocumented endpoints on query1.finance.yahoo.com that Yahoo never supported for programmatic use. They break on every change, throttle aggressively, and the CSV download endpoint was removed years ago. This guide maps each one to a stable Eulerpool method.

Endpoint migration map

Yahoo Finance endpoint / yfinanceEulerpool equivalent
v7/finance/quoteclient.equity.quotes(isin)
v8/finance/chart/{sym}client.equity.candles(isin)
v10/finance/quoteSummary (financials)client.equity.incomeStatement(isin) · balanceSheet · cashFlowStatement
quoteSummary (assetProfile)client.equity.profile(isin)
quoteSummary (defaultKeyStatistics)client.equity.metrics(isin)
yf.Ticker().dividendsclient.equity.dividends(isin)
yf.Ticker().newsclient.news.byIsin(isin)
yf.Ticker().major_holdersclient.equity.ownership(isin)
v7/finance/download (removed)client.equity.candles(isin)

Yahoo uses ticker symbols; Eulerpool uses ISINs. Resolve any ticker with client.equity.search("AAPL").

Before & after

yfinance (unofficial, breaks often)
import yfinance as yf

# undocumented, rate-limited, breaks on change
data = yf.Ticker("AAPL").income_stmt
Eulerpool (documented, stable)
import eulerpool

client = eulerpool.Eulerpool("YOUR_API_KEY")
data = client.equity.income_statement("US0378331005")

What you gain by switching

Documented & stable

A real, versioned REST API with SLAs — not scraped endpoints that break weekly.

No silent throttling

1,000 calls/month free with clear limits, instead of opaque IP rate-limiting.

Deeper data

Point-in-time fundamentals, estimates, ownership, insider & congress trades, macro.

Licensed for production

Commercial-friendly terms, vs the legal gray area of scraping Yahoo.

Yahoo Finance API FAQ

No. Yahoo discontinued its official finance API and the YQL service years ago. Tools like yfinance work by scraping undocumented endpoints on query1.finance.yahoo.com, which Yahoo does not support for programmatic access and can change or block at any time.

Because it depends on internal, undocumented endpoints and HTML/JSON structures that Yahoo changes without notice, and on IP-based rate limits that throttle or block automated traffic. A documented provider like Eulerpool gives you a stable contract instead.

For most workflows, yes. Quotes, historical candles, financial statements, key stats, dividends, ownership and news all map to Eulerpool methods. The main difference is identifying securities by ISIN; resolve any ticker with client.equity.search().

Yes — 1,000 API calls per month free, no credit card, with official Python, JavaScript and Go SDKs and a native MCP server for AI agents.

Scraping Yahoo Finance sits in a legal gray area and violates its terms for many use cases. Eulerpool provides licensed, commercial-friendly data so you can build production products without that risk.

BlackRock

“Eulerpool replaced three legacy data subscriptions in our equity research workflow. Migration took two days.”

Sarah Chen

VP Equity Research · BlackRock

Citadel

“Point-in-time data quality rivals CRSP at a fraction of the cost. We run all backtests on Eulerpool now.”

Dr. James Whitfield

Quantitative Researcher · Citadel

Goldman Sachs

“We migrated our entire data pipeline in 48 hours. The API is the cleanest I have worked with in finance.”

Marcus Rodriguez

Engineering Lead · Goldman Sachs

A Yahoo Finance API that won't break

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