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here is the pull request from yfinance that has fixed the encryption issue - ranaroussi/yfinance#1253

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Just move all your stuff to yfinance, this dev gave up on this project already. The module has not been updated in almost 2 yrs. Since the Yahoo API issue occurred last week, yfinance has already issued out 2 patches to remedy the same issue we are requesting to fix right now.

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Same issue here with for example:

aapl_earnings_hist = si.get_earnings_history("aapl")

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Hi,

Seems that the issue is not related only to some functions.

Seems that is something in the api response that is coming from Yahoo Finance.

Let's take the following example:

• in stock_info.py we are having the following function = get_earnings_history .

With the help of _parse_earnings_json(url)**** we retrive information from Yahoo Finance.

the problem: is in the api response because key = "stores" is somehow encrypted.

In order to figure out if is something related to yahoo_fin (expected to not be since no updates happened) I checked the information in Postman and run an GET URL API:

Seems that Yahoo Fin is starting to encrypt some information (maybe I;m wrong).

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Hi,

Seems that the issue is not related only to some functions.

Seems that is something in the api response that is coming from Yahoo Finance.

Let's take the following example:

• in stock_info.py we are having the following function = get_earnings_history .

With the help of _parse_earnings_json(url)**** we retrive information from Yahoo Finance.

the problem: is in the api response because key = "stores" is somehow encrypted.

In order to figure out if is something related to yahoo_fin (expected to not be since no updates happened) I checked the information in Postman and run an GET URL API:

Seems that Yahoo Fin is starting to encrypt some information (maybe I;m wrong).

If it is because Yahoo Finance encrypts some information, do you know of any user-side solutions?

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Nope, but seems that not only yahoo_fin is having this issue.

Maybe to owner of the project is more familiar than me with the Yahoo Finance flow and with python.

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Ok, so after some research, indeed the issue is coming from the Yahoo API.

I found that also other people that are using other libraries are having the some issues.

I don t know if is fine to specify the library but somehow they succeed to fix it.

The fix relates to the fact that they are decrypting the information with some AES parser & cipher.

I m not familiar to much with python, but in their cases seems to work and I have no idea if this library is still updated or not

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Ok, so after some research, indeed the issue is coming from the Yahoo API.

I found that also other people that are using other libraries are having the some issues.

I don t know if is fine to specify the library but somehow they succeed to fix it.

The fix relates to the fact that they are decrypting the information with some AES parser & cipher.

I m not familiar to much with python, but in their cases seems to work and I have no idea if this library is still updated or not

I am not familiar with AES parser and cypher. Perhaps you could provide the links you referenced that address similar issues.

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here is the pull request from yfinance that has fixed the encryption issue - ranaroussi/yfinance#1253

I was experiencing the issue when calling get_earnings_for_date(). Found a workaround using a snippet of the fix from yfinance.

Below is the workaround for my use case. This is not a proper fix, only posting it here for real developers to come up with a proper fix and update the yahoo_fin project. Until then, this workaround may work for others as well.

1. Replace the stock_info.py in your python project (...\Lib\site-packages\yahoo_fin\stock_info.py) with the attached updated version
2. Install additional python modules to handle the decryption
   import hashlib
   from base64 import b64decode
   from cryptography.hazmat.primitives import padding
   from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.ciphers import Cipher, algorithms, modes

"changelog"

• added the import statements above
• added the function decrypt_cryptojs_aes()
• modified get_earnings_for_date()
  changed "stores = result['context']['dispatcher']['stores']" to "stores = decrypt_cryptojs_aes(result)"'

stock_info.py.txt

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