Thank you for mentioning this! There was indeed an issue with request dates, e.g., the following won't work: The reason seems to be that this date range only includes a weekend. This is unexpected, in a way, because the Yahoo!
The Stock Connector add-in lets you link stocks to cells in the spreadsheet. The add-in works in Microsoft Excel 2013, Excel 2016 for Mac and PC, Excel Online. On Nov 1, 2017, Yahoo disabled external access to its free financial data. LINK YAHOO FINANCE TO EXCEL. Submitted: 8 years ago. Category: Computer. Ask Your Own Computer Question. I want to create a DDE link into a Cell from a public Shares prices page. The Expert answered my Mac question and was patient. He answered in a thorough and timely manner, keeping the response on a level that could understand.
Website itself automatically corrects such a request and shows data for the preceding Friday. The CSV web service apparently does not do that.
Hence, in the macro, it makes sense to look back for a full week: dtPrevDate = dtDate - 7 That way you will download data for a full week and still just take the quote from the most recent date. The article above is adjusted accordingly, and the code should work fine again.
If you encounter other errors, try to un-comment the lines with 'Debug.Print'; that would help identifying errors. Found it and replaced your function as follows. For more details, see webpage Function Shareprice(YahooTicker As String) Dim strURL As String, strCSV As Double ' Compile the request URL with selected Yahoo Ticker & Yahoo Tag ' Example for Apple Inc. Share price ' strURL = '& YahooTicker & '&f=l1' Set http = CreateObject('MSXML2.XMLHTTP') http.Open 'GET', strURL, False http.Send strCSV = http.responseText Shareprice = strCSV Set http = Nothing End Function.
Thanks for this great macro! I simplified the program and removed the date input. So my version only outputs the current stock price ('l1'). I guess that is what Rupesh and Mike asked for further above.
The input has to look like this: =StockQuote('tickersymbol'). I had difficulties with this macro to show exchange rates (e.g.
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That's why I changed the url in my version to 'download.finance.yahoo.com'. Somehow there it works. Here is the code: Function StockQuote(strTicker As String) Dim strURL As String, strCSV As String Dim dbClose As Double ' Compile the request URL strURL = '& strTicker & '&f=l1' ' Debug.Print strURL Set http = CreateObject('MSXML2.XMLHTTP') http.Open 'GET', strURL, False http.Send strCSV = http.responseText ' Debug.Print strCSV dbClose = strCSV ' Debug.Print vbLf ' Debug.Print 'dbClose: ' & dbClose StockQuote = dbClose Set http = Nothing End Function.
Hi Mike, I added some code (all the credit goes to Nick - ). You can change the update interval (Line 8. It's set to 5 minutes right now). I wouldn't recommend to set a a very small time though. Yahoo seems to block too many requests from the same user. So if you have many ticker symbols and/or a short update interval the macro hangs for quite some time. Another note: After copying the code into your Excel sheet, it might be necessary to save, close and reopen the file in order to start the auto update.
Rene, Thank you.Thank you. I've been trying to replace an Open Office plug-in called 'GetHistory' which also retrieved Yahoo historical stock prices as it quit working some time ago. Thank you also Jeff O for posting how to retrieve the adjusted closing prices also. Those are the only historical prices that mean anything to me. With much struggle I got it working on Excel 2013. A program that I hate along with Windows 8. Anyway, it works and it has simplified my life.
Thanks again, Merle. Rene, Thanks for the macro! It works great and was exactly what i needed. Would you have any idea how to retrieve another piece of Yahoo Finance data for comparison? There is a Field called 'Mean Target' on the Analyst Opinion Tab within Yahoo Finance that i'd like to compare to the stock prices to see which stocks have the most and least theoretical upside. My Macro/VBA understanding is insufficient to figure out how to adapt your code to perform this additional function.
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If you have any ideas, i'd be grateful. (I have also been an investor for a long time and think it will help you to make money in stocks.). I like the function but was a little leery of using a function on my spreadsheet where I track historical info.
I wouldn’t want to update a sheet that has values for a previous period. So I wrote a little macro that I will run once, it’ll update my sheet with the current values for the stocks. Then I can save the spreadsheet and if I open it six months later it won’t try to recalculate by sending the command to yahoo again. The macro is based on the assumption that the ticker symbols start at cell A5; there can be as many as 40 symbols (blanks are skipped).
The value returned by the function is put in the cell three columns to the right of the ticker symbol. Here’s some sample data (so you can see the format I have): Ticker Name Shares Price Total CAH Cardinal Health, Inc. 100 69.73 $6,973.00 Z Zillow, Inc. 200 92.27 $18,454.00 T AT&T, Inc 300 35.09 $10,527.00 Sub UpdatePrice ' ' Go down list of symbols and update price column ' Dim Symbol As String OrigAdd = ActiveCell.Address Range('A5').Select Symbol = ActiveCell.Value For Count = 1 To 40 Do While Symbol ' x = StockQuote(Symbol) ActiveCell.Offset(0, 3).Value = x ActiveCell.Offset(1, 0).Activate Symbol = ActiveCell.Value Loop ActiveCell.Offset(1, 0).Activate Symbol = ActiveCell.Value Next Count Range(OrigAdd).Activate End Sub Hope that helps someone. I like Renee's idea with the auto-updater and Larry's idea of utilising an x=stockquote(symbol) and x=value of specified cell But I would like to know if it is possible to somewhat combine the two and use prices fetched from yahoo.without having to type the full formula into excel each time.
I want to have the formula built into the cell, and all I have to type is the code AAPL which converts into the price (rather than typing: stockquote('aapl') Is this possible?? Thanks so much guys, this macro has already made my days much easier!
Added option for specifying which value to return(strFieldName As String): Date Open High Low Close Volume Adj Close Usage: =StockQuoteHistory('INTC','Adj Close',DATEVALUE('7-10-2014')) Or using cells references to provide the parameters. =StockQuoteHistory($A2,G$1,$B2) Where: Cell G$1 is a field name such as 'Adj Close' (typically the column header) Cell $A2 is a ticker symbol such as 'INTC' (typically the row header) Cell $B2 is a date such as 7/10/2014 Field Name defaults to 'Close' if the parameter is missing or empty, like so. =StockQuoteHistory('INTC') =StockQuoteHistory('INTC',DATEVALUE('7-10-2014')) =StockQuoteHistory('INTC',',DATEVALUE('7-10-2014')) Option Compare Text Function StockQuoteHistory(strTicker As String, Optional strFieldName As String, Optional dtDate As Variant) ' Date is optional - if omitted, use today. If value is not a date, throw error. This code works on Excel, Office for Mac 2011.
It will put the quote to the right of the cell with the macro call. Function StockQuote(strTicker As String) Call StockQuote2(strTicker, ActiveCell.Offset(0, 1).Address) End Function Function StockQuote2(strSymbol As String, strDest As String) Dim strURL As String strURL = '& strSymbol & '&f=l1' With ActiveSheet.QueryTables.Add(Connection:='URL;' & strURL, Destination:=Range(strDest)).PostText = '.RefreshStyle = xlOverwriteCells.SaveData = True.Refresh End With End Function. I put stock symbols in column B, starting with cell B5. I then update prices in column D, using PPK's code. Stock symbols have to match Yahoo, i.e. BRK/B is BRK-B in Yahoo. Sub Quotes ' Dim Symbol As String Dim Comma As String Comma = ',' Range('B5').Select Symbol = ActiveCell.Value Range('B6').Select Do Until IsEmpty(ActiveCell.Value) Symbol = Symbol & Comma & ActiveCell.Value ActiveCell.Offset(1, 0).Range('A1').Select Loop Range('B5').Select ActiveCell.Offset(0, 2).Range('A1').Value = StockQuote(Symbol) Range('A1').Select End Sub.
I'm using two macros 1 for price history, and one for current price, using what I have seen above. Everything was running well until today.
My current price (stockquote) quit working for me, and just returns a 0. Is this a yahoo issue? Did something change? Never had this issue before.
Free Stock Quotes in Excel There are a few ways to get stock quotes into Excel. For example, there are commercial add-ins that can download historical stock quotes into Excel and provide tools for analyzing the information, creating charts, and providing oodles of technical analysis functions. This page describes using Excel web queries to get refreshable stock quotes in Excel. However, the old MSN data source no longer works, so I've explained how to create your own data source using Google Sheets.
Excel web queries allow you to import information from a web page into Excel. In the past, Microsoft provided a free MSN Money Stock Quote add-in for importing financial data, but they stopped supporting the add-in, and the MSN data source is no longer accessible (For more information about creating web queries, see '.' Stock Quotes in Excel via Google Sheets The function in Google Sheets allows you to get delayed quotes for stocks and mutual funds. After creating a table for the symbols that you want, you can publish the sheet as a web page (via File Publish to the Web).
You can then import the data into Excel via a web query that uses the Google Sheet as the data source. To do this, follow the steps below. Step 1: Start with a Google Sheets Template We've created a Google Sheets template that uses the GOOGLEFINANCE function to display stock quotes. You can make a copy of that template and update it with your own list of stocks and mutual funds. Step 2: Add Stocks and Mutual Funds To add a new stock symbol to the Google Sheet, type the symbol in column A, then copy the formulas from previous rows.
To update the web query, go to Data Refresh All. With the data now in Excel, you can use VLOOKUP or INDEX/MATCH functions to reference the data in the web query. For example use a formula like =INDEX(D:D,MATCH('MSFT',B:B,0)) to get the Price for MSFT. MSN Money Stock Quote Add-in One way to work with stock quotes in Excel used to be the free MSN Money Stock Quote Add-in for Excel versions 2002 and 2003 (and 2007). But, Microsoft says that the add-in has 'expired' and there won't be any more updates of the add-in. The add-in used a data source that appears to be inactive now. Historical Stock Quotes via Yahoo Finance It may be possible to create a web query to access historical stock quotes from Yahoo!
Finance or some other site, but I have found this approach to be somewhat cumbersome. Perhaps a better way to do this is to download historical stock quote data into Excel from Yahoo Finance. Enter Stock Symbol: After you enter the symbol, choose the date range you want and then press the 'Download to Spreadsheet' button at the bottom of the table.
This will download the entire date range rather than just the stock quote data shown on the page. AnalyzerXL.com sells a tool called DownloaderXL that allows you to download tabulated historical stock quotes into Excel. They also sell other add-ins related to technical analysis, portfolio tracking, options, etc. More Options. at support.google.com - Google got it right. You can use the =GOOGLEFINANCE function to get stock quote data into your Google Spreadsheet directly from.
View an example template by Google. at chandoo.org - Describes a way to use VBA to get stock quote data from Yahoo Finance.