DataReader google finance date not working

Question

I was just using pandas datareader to get the stock data for the past two weeks or so and it was working fine. All of a sudden since yesterday the date provided wasnt worki

Answer 1

Google has changed the Google Finance URL to finance.google.com/finance/historical rather than www.google.com/finance/historical, which is used as the URL in the pandas_datareader.

Server returns HTTP 302 when fetching data from the old URL and redirect to the new URL. However, the parameters startdate/enddate are missing during the HTTP redirection.

The url is set in the source code: https://github.com/pydata/pandas-datareader/blob/master/pandas_datareader/google/daily.py

Maybe you can modify the URL and use your own version of pandas_datareader.