Yahoo option chain web page changed

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kiev

I used to grab option chain data from yahoo web page, but today I found the page had been changed, in the new page, js is used, which means it's more difficult to retrieve option data from yahoo.

Any good idea to solve this?
 
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kiev said:
I used to grab option chain data from yahoo web page, but today I found the page had been changed, in the new page, js is used, which means it's more difficult to retrieve option data from yahoo.

Any good idea to solve this?
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Maybe you need to look for js interpreter somewhere. If find a solution I'll let you know.
 
if I told you, I would have to kill you :)

Just opened the browser Development tools (CTRL+SHIFT+I), then loaded the page and looked for where the data was requested. The page loads a ton of stuff but usually the data requests are relatively easy to identify. Been doing it for 18 years, so it becomes second nature :)

Jerry Medved
https://www.medvedtrader.com
 
j_medved said:
Actually, from what I saw it actually seems like they made it very easy to request data. For example:
https://query2.finance.yahoo.com/v7...ted=true&lang=en-US&region=US&date=1469145600

Gets IBM option chain for July 22, 2016. I didn't look too deeply but there are other parameters that let you filter or request different parts of the data. results are standard JSON

Jerry Medved
https://www.medvedtrader.com
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Forgive me my ignorance, do you know how to read 'date=1469145600' exactly?
 
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