I have a JAVA program that i have been using for the last year to downlaod data from yahoo finance. A few days ago it stopped working and yahoo started to refuse the connection.
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
Has anyone else experienced this?
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Scanner;
import java.util.GregorianCalendar;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;
import java.util.Scanner;
public class C_GetStocksFromYahoo {
public Scanner input;
public void GetStocks(String symbol, GregorianCalendar start, GregorianCalendar end) {
String url = "http://real-chart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s="
+ symbol
+ "&a=" + start.get(Calendar.MONTH)
+ "&b=" + start.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH)
+ "&c=" + start.get(Calendar.YEAR)
+ "&d=" + end.get(Calendar.MONTH)
+ "&e=" +end.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH)
+ "&f=" + end.get(Calendar.YEAR)
+ "&g=d&ignore=.csv"; //g=d means daily stock quotes
try {
URL yhoofin=new URL(url);//Create New URL data
URLConnection data=yhoofin.openConnection();//Open a connection
input = new Scanner(data.getInputStream());//get data from input stream
//System.out.println("This is the scanner " + input);
//System.out.println("This is the first line " + this.nextline());
//System.out.println("This is the first line " + this.nextline());
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("This is the symbol i failed on " + symbol);
System.err.println(e);
}
}
//scanner value
public Scanner getScan() {
return input;
}
//determine if file has next entry
public boolean hasnext() {
return input.hasNext();
}
//contains next line
public String nextline() {
return input.nextLine();
}
public void closeConnection() {
input.close();
}
}
