Post #3273 by rayvt on the Mechanical Investing board

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(Jason Strimpel http://finance.jasonstrimpel.com/bulk-stock-downlo...) has not been working for the last few weeks

Yeah, that's the downside of depending on the kindness of strangers. ;-(

Yahoo changed the download features once again a few weeks ago. I guess they finally realized that everybody who cared has long ago figured out their cookie/crumb trick.

Anyway, people who are really interested and into this stuff pretty quickly figured out the new side door. But this time, nobody seems to be posting all over the internet the way to download that data now. (I'm one of those.) You have to get kinda down and dirty with Linux, although I guess you could also manage to do it on Windows if you had the proper tools.

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