How to download data from Yahoo finance

18 February 2016

To get a .csv file of stock prices from Yahoo you can use a url like:

http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=URTH&g=m&c=2015&a=9&b=1&f=2016&d=2&e=1

In detail:

http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?

s=URTH              //this is the stock symbol to get data for
&g=m                //d=daily m=monthly
&c=2015 &a=9 &b=1   //from year month day
&f=2016 &d=2 &e=1   //to   year month day