Pandas data reader for google end dates are not working

[nithints]

import pandas_datareader.data as web
import datetime
start = datetime.datetime(2010, 1, 1)

end = datetime.datetime(2015, 5, 9)

web.DataReader('AAPL', 'google', start, end)

getting an year data irrespective of start and end dates

[rsvp]

• Duplicate issue of It seems that Google does no longer provide historical stock data? #391 and Unable to fetch Google finance data #394

[bkcollection]

@rsvp Is the google historical data is just merely a change of link from www.google.com to finance.google.com ?
or it has a more complicated issues to deal with before merge into pandas-datareader? If it is stopped will cause a big issues for non US user as we do not have any alternatives which is need to cost a lot of money like Bloomberg/reuters

[rsvp]

@bkcollection I have covered both Google Finance URL Change and Alternative Data Sources at rsvp/fecon235#7 in detail. The situation is still in flux.

[1rocketdude]

thank you for the thorough description of the problem with Google and Yahoo. I've had good luck with Quandl, but it is not infallible. Some symbols are not available. Have not tried Tingo and Alpha Advantage, so I have no experience. Looks like time to ditch Google and Yahoo. Frequent interface changes are challenging to keep up with.

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[innocentkithinji]

It is easy to fix just change the googles daily.py file to look llike this one.
The reason it doesnt fetch the data is that google changed its finance url from http://www.google.com/finance/historical to http://finance.google.com/finance/historical during the redirect the dates are not passed in the HTTP request.

[EngJay]

I just ran into this issue with version 0.5.0 and confirmed that the fix suggested above by @innocentkithinji does restore expected functionality.

[davidastephens]

Fixed in #404