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The Risks of Misguided Research in Supply Chain Security
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github.com/cdillond/yfi
yfi provides an unofficial Go wrapper for the Yahoo Finance API.
Disclaimer: yfi is not affiliated with or produced by Yahoo. Data obtained through yfi should be used only for personal, non-commercial applications.
yfi attempts to unify several versions of the Yahoo Finance API, each of which is sparsely documented and not guaranteed to be stable. Presently, there are 3 main representations of an asset, each providing different information:
Ticker
contains historical data in a simple and straightforward mannerQuote
contains current market data about an assetQuoteSummary
contains extensive data about an asset based on the selected QueryParam
. Because of how varied the data can be, the response is returned as a map[string]any
. The plan is eventually to provide individual structs for each response type.FAQs
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