0.6 Release

[bashtage]

Tasks before 0.6 release

• Decide future of google finance reader
• Decide future of yahoo finance reader
• Decide future of Edgar reader
• Update docs with whatsnew
• Update docs with minimal examples form new readers
• Integrate IEX reader

[1rocketdude]

I vote for abandoning google and yahoo altogether. They have been unstable for many months and do not appear likely to return in a manner that fits with pandas-datareader. The free services like barchart, tiingo, and quandl are mature and stable.

[rsvp]

Re: future of Google and Yahoo finance

Here's an overview of the disruption history
and some of the alternate remedies:
rsvp/fecon235#7

As of the end of 2017, there seems to be no
official pronouncements about the future of providing equities data
in a stable manner from neither Google nor Yahoo.

Comments on the reliability of alternate data vendors
would be very valuable.

[bashtage]

Thanks. It would be nice to collect views. I am leaning towards putting something like a DeprecationError on Yahoo since it seems to be completely broken and will need to be removed. Google is more unstable but not completely broken, so this is more difficult.

[hydrosquall]

Thank you so much @bashtage ! Just making a note on this thread that when this is released, #420 will be resolved.

[rsvp]

How is the latest version transmitted downstream to Anaconda?
How are they notified?

Is it possible to conda install the HEAD of the master branch?
(This would be a way to mitigate interim disruptions with Yahoo
and Google, and get the latest documentation, without waiting
around for a major release.)

[bashtage]

It can take a while for official Anaconda to pick up a module. Conda-forge can be triggered by users though, and since this package doesn't have any binary requirements, PyPi is as good as anything else.

[alfredaita]

Yesterday Jan 15 2018 using Google with DataReader I was able to download 13 years of all the components to the S&P 500 with no issues.
This morning , using the same ipython session I was not able to download any quotes at all.
Immediately I started a new ipython session , with Google and DataReader, and it worked fine.

I would note that I changed the http link in daily.py:

#return 'http://www.google.com/finance/historical' original
return 'http://finance.google.com/finance/historical' # replaced by alfred

[ralexx]

@rsvp

Is it possible to conda install the HEAD of the master branch?

Use conda develop /path/to/pandas_datareader [doc]

[addisonlynch]

@bashtage I've made progress on an IEX reader, I'll have something to take a look at early next week (3 readers- Daily, Quotes, and Actions). Has anyone else gotten started on this? Will commit my work so far to my fork for those who wish to take a look. Would almost certainly be for the next release (after 0.6), and could add a reader for AlphaVantage by that time as well.

[bashtage]

There are IEX readers in master now, as of today. Try these. Maybe they could be improved? Could certainly use more examples.

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