Yahoo option chain web page changed

[arturo100]

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

Great tip, John. Thank you.
Is there a way to get all the expiration dates in one page?
Thanks again.
Arturo

 

[Kevin Schmit]

Great tip, John. Thank you.
Is there a way to get all the expiration dates in one page?
Thanks again.
Arturo

No, you have to loop through all the expiries.

Call a simplified version of the URL:
https://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v7/finance/options/APPL

That gets you a json response with underlying info, a list
of expiries and strikes, and the first expiries option chain.

If you are using python get the expiry list like this:


url = 'https://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v7/finance/option/AAPL'
uConn = urllib2.urlopen(url)
ii = uConn.readline()
ii = demjson.decode(ii)
uConn.close()
uaExpiries = ii['optionChain']['result'][0]['expirationDates']

 

[arturo100]

No, you have to loop through all the expiries.

Call a simplified version of the URL:
https://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v7/finance/options/APPL

That gets you a json response with underlying info, a list
of expiries and strikes, and the first expiries option chain.

If you are using python get the expiry list like this:


url = 'https://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v7/finance/option/AAPL'
uConn = urllib2.urlopen(url)
ii = uConn.readline()
ii = demjson.decode(ii)
uConn.close()
uaExpiries = ii['optionChain']['result'][0]['expirationDates']

Thanks, Kevin. Appreciated.

 

[arturo100]

Sorry for being somewhat off-topic, but I would be interested also in getting the statistcs from this yahoo page:
http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL/key-statistics?p=AAPL

Is there any workaround also for retrieving these data?
Thanks in advance.
Arturo

 

[j_medved]

Here it is:
https://query2.finance.yahoo.com/v1...a,calendarEvents&corsDomain=finance.yahoo.com

 

[arturo100]

Here it is:
https://query2.finance.yahoo.com/v10/finance/quoteSummary/AAPL?formatted=true&lang=en-US&region=US&modules=defaultKeyStatistics,financialData,calendarEvents&corsDomain=finance.yahoo.com

Wow, John! I am impressed. Thank you so much.
Arturo

 

[bln]

Forgive me my ignorance, do you know how to read 'date=1469145600' exactly?

Tip, here how one can convert from epoch on Linux:

date -d @1469145600

or with a custom format:

date -d @1469145600 +"%d-%m-%Y %T %z"

get the current time in epoch:

date +%s