On 21 November 2017 at 10:49, Ivan Rossi wrote: | Package: libfinance-yahooquote-perl | Version: 0.25 | Severity: grave | Justification: renders package unusable | | Dear Maintainer, | | yahooquote (and smtm) stopped working. It seems that yahoo does not allow queries anymore.
That is the backend. Yahoo! stopped supporting this. See several online discussions. I think the only answer is to withdraw libfinance-yahooquote-perl from CRAN. Dirk | how to reproduce: | | $ yahooquote GOOG AMZN | Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/yahooquote line 33. | Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/yahooquote line 33. | <html><head><title>Yahoo! - 403 Forbidden -- error 403</title></head><body>It has come to our attention that this service is being used in violation of the Yahoo Terms of Service. As such the service is being discontinued. For all future markets and equities data research | please refer to finance.yahoo.com.</body></html> | | | | -- System Information: | Debian Release: 9.1 | APT prefers stable | APT policy: (500, 'stable') | Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) | Foreign Architectures: i386 | | Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) | Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) | Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash | Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) | | Versions of packages libfinance-yahooquote-perl depends on: | ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3 | ii libwww-perl 6.15-1 | ii perl 5.24.1-3+deb9u2 | ii perl-modules-5.24 [perl-modules] 5.24.1-3+deb9u2 | | libfinance-yahooquote-perl recommends no packages. | | libfinance-yahooquote-perl suggests no packages. | | -- no debconf information -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected]
