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Has IK not been paying for the financial data from Yahoo?

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robert.l.spaulding

02 Nov, 2017 09:30 PM

Seems I've been supporting criminal activity for some time by paying for software that illegally retrieves stock quotes from yahoo against their terms of service.

1. 1 Posted by ATucker on 02 Nov, 2017 10:45 PM

   

   Naughty boy? Maybe, but not for this. Violating terms of service of a website aggregating public data is not a crime.

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2. Support Staff 2 Posted by Sean Reilly on 03 Nov, 2017 01:42 PM

   

   Hi Robert,

   For the entire time that the quotes+rates extension has been available (about 17 years now) it wasn't against their terms of service. We have in the past communicated with Yahoo! staff who knew about the extension and gave us no indication at all that this was frowned upon, let alone violated any agreement. Most other financial software I've come across has used the same API and is now having the same problems. The Quotes and Rates extension is open source and available for any developers to use or contribute to here: https://bitbucket.org/infinitekind/moneydance_open

   I'm currently adding some more public services to the extension, and anyone else is welcome to add their own or suggest some for us to integrate. We're happy to add any paid services as well - please let us know if you have any preferred sources, even if they require a subscription fee.

   Thanks,

   Sean Reilly
   Developer, The Infinite Kind
   http://infinitekind.com

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3. Sean Reilly closed this discussion on 03 Nov, 2017 01:42 PM.

4. robert.l.spaulding re-opened this discussion on 03 Nov, 2017 05:21 PM

5. 3 Posted by robert.l.spauld... on 03 Nov, 2017 05:21 PM

   

   Thanks for the reply, just quoting Yahoo! as to why the service was shut down. It broke my financial world. Guess paying their sorry CEO millions upon millions to destroy the company made them give up any good will they had. I have several financial apps all of which broke with this issue. Your not alone.

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6. 4 Posted by dwg on 03 Nov, 2017 08:57 PM

   

   Yahoo is now owned by Verizon and I suspect they do not like anything that they cannot use to shove ads down your throat. Hence the change in position.

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7. 5 Posted by jonh on 03 Nov, 2017 09:39 PM

   

   well said. It's a shame I have to fire up my browser & go to yahoo just to push the 'export' button. But if I'm fast I only get a glimpse of the other garbage on the page.

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8. 6 Posted by Fred on 04 Nov, 2017 03:46 PM

   

   Sean,
   could you please add Fidelity as an optional source for current prices in the Quotes and Rates (or any similar) extension.
   Thanks.

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9. robert.l.spaulding closed this discussion on 05 Nov, 2017 12:13 PM.