URL Read Returns Status of 1, but no Data

Hello All,

I have been using urlread for quite some time now, however it is not working anymore, and I am struggling to find where it is failing. I am gathering end of day information for a number of stocks from Yahoo Finance. The following code is used:

[temp, s] = urlread(http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=ACBFF&a=00&b=01&c=2016&d=03&e=17&f=2017&g=d&ignore=.csv)

After this runs, s returns 1, however temp does not have any data (it has worked for a few weeks up until yesterday).

Does anyone have suggestions, or know of why this error is coming up now?

Thanks for the help,

Carmelo

[Matlab Learner]

The same issue happened to me starting yesterday. I use webread to get around the issue, however, it is much slower than urlwrite or urlread.

[Octavio Garcia]

Same to me, and last Sunday was ok. Work in the Chrome and download the data with this example, but not using urlread:

http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=FDX&a=10&b=23&c=2016&d=03&e=18&f=2017&g=d&ignore=.csv

[Octavio Garcia]

I just used the urlread2 function and it gives the same empty string as urlread, therefore may be changed something in Yahoo Finance?

[temp, status] =urlread2.urlread2('http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=FDX&a=10&b=23&c=2016&d=03&e=18&f=2017&g=d&ignore=.csv');

[Octavio Garcia]

....after read a post, a guy changed http by https in the URL, and now WORKS!! using urlread

[temp, status] = urlread(strcat('https://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s='... ,tickers{i},'&a=',bm,'&b=',bd,'&c=',by,'&d=',em,'&e=',ed,'&f=',... ey,'&g=',freq,'&ignore=.csv'));% urlread2.urlread2( ... do the same

[Carmelo Gonzales]

Thanks Octavio for your input! Yes, changing http to https works! Such a simple fix but bugged the hell out of me for a few days!

Answer 1

[Lukas Mich]

Try using https instead of http

Answer 2

[Carmelo Gonzales]

Thanks Lukas - This was the fix!