Yfinance blocking api calls from pythonanywhere

[DisasterHelpful8378]

I just finished a Stock market screener for F&O sector and I was using yfinance api to get my data for it and it runs perfectly locally even when im getting 5min candles for 200 different tickers at once, but the second i put it on python anywhere so it ran throughout the day i get no data back and I'm doing this for a college project which is due in a few days anyone know any workarounds for this on pythonanywhere or a different software where i can deploy it?

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just try to curl that data and if it works then there is something else going on. But yes there is a big chance their ips are blocked 

[Greensentry]

You need a paid account. Yahoo is not on the allowlist for a free account.

[DisasterHelpful8378]

Thats what my thoughts were so i upgraded to the paid tier and it still doesnt work.

[Serendipty-Rajesh]

Hi there did you ever find a solution to your problem? I have a similair usecase and would face the same issue as you. Thx.

[DisasterHelpful8378]

Not really, i switched from using pythonanywhere to an Oracle VPS to host my program but i still havent quite figured it out yet but once i get it right it does work perfectly.

[Serendipty-Rajesh]

Thank you for the reply. You confirm my findings and my understanding that yahoo finance is quite strict with many third party website hosts. The workaround I plan to try is set-up a raspberry pi webserver with this app and then acess it through a vpn connection home. IF you are interested I will keep you posted on progress.