Yahoo Finance API stock/ticker lookup only allowing exact match

Question

Until yesterday a query such as this http://autoc.finance.yahoo.com/autoc?query=a&callback=YAHOO.Finance.SymbolSuggest.ssCallback yielded a long list of fuzzy/broadmatch

Answer 1

The URL has now changed to this: http://d.yimg.com/aq/autoc?query=y&region=US&lang=en-US&callback=YAHOO.util.ScriptNodeDataSource.callbacks

Answer 2

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UPDATE I took this offline due to lack of interest

Answer 3

The following works (the returned data stream has lots of escape characters):

http://autoc.finance.yahoo.com/autoc?query=alphabet&region=EU&lang=en-GB

Or expanded in the YQL Console:

https://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select%20*%20from%20html%20where%20url%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fautoc.finance.yahoo.com%2Fautoc%3Fquery%3Dalphabet%26region%3DEU%26lang%3Den-GB'&format=json&callback=