Yahoo finance ichart service availability

Question

Following Has Yahoo finance web service disappeared? API changed? Down temporarily?

Now seems something wrong with a ichart service too: https://ichart.yahoo.com/tab

Answer 1

Yahoo has officially confirmed that the Yahoo Finance API has been discontinued in the following thread in the Yahoo Help Community (see posts by username Nixon):

https://forums.yahoo.net/t5/Yahoo-Finance-help/Is-Yahoo-Finance-API-broken/m-p/250503#U250503

Answer 2

There are already some excellent alternatives out there such as this: valueviz

I was surprised because I was expecting at least a premium upgrade to retain some of the customers. Not sure who calls the shots in Yahoo but not that clever!