Hello team, would Yahoo Finance price API be inter...
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Hello team, would Yahoo Finance price API be interesting enough to be added to the source connectors? I developed it today and I (should) have it ready, is it worth polishing and documenting for an "official" integration? I'm asking because it's quite small and the Yahoo Finance APIs are not documented to be explicitly publicly available (I think). It's based on the "Price" section of this SO Answer
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There isn’t any official docs about the yahooo finance api in their website?
It's not an official API, it's a collection of "reverse-engineered" backend API calls. Nonetheless, it's widely used as the primary free source of stock prices for private users, mostly via the
yfinance
python module
@Andy Yeo (Airbyte) what do you think about it?
Thanks for looping me in, Marcos! Luca, appreciate the heads-up and the context. I think given this is “reverse-engineered”, I’m hesitant for us to officially pull it into our catalog with docs. But also appreciate the value that this might have for other private users - if you don’t mind, I’d suggest creating a PR that we’ll keep in the repo as a reference if it gets asked in the future so other’s can leverage your work. This also leaves an artefact for us to promote in the future when we make space for connectors that fit into this category so you it can be attributed to your hard work!
All right, I'll see what I can do about the documentation and I'll refactor the code a little before opening a draft PR on GitHub.
Draft PR created