title: Has Yahoo finance web service disappeared? API changed? Down temporarily?
body: <p>For quite some time I've been using the following REST API to query Yahoo finance for current prices.  It is documented in several Stack Overflow posts, e.g. <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27543776/yahoo-finance-webservice-api">Yahoo finance webservice</a> and elsewhere in <a href="/questions/tagged/yahoo-finance" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;yahoo-finance&#39;" rel="tag">yahoo-finance</a>.  </p>
  
  <pre><code>http://finance.yahoo.com/webservice/v1/symbols/$SYMBOLS/quote?format=json
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  <p>where $SYMBOLS is a comma-delimited list of stock or index symbols.  </p>
  
  <p>Yesterday the query stopped working, returning only a "Moved Temporarily. Redirecting to ..." message.  </p>
  
  <p>Is this web service now closed?  Has it been replaced by YQL or another API?  Queries for a table of historic prices to "ichart" still work. E.g.,</p>
  
  <pre><code>http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?d=2&amp;e=3&amp;f=2016&amp;g=d&amp;a=0&amp;b=1&amp;c=2011&amp;ignore=.csv&amp;s=$SYMBOL
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  <p>Thanks.</p>