The macro will download data to the "DownloadeData" worksheet. Select the ActiveQuotesDownload macro and click on the Run button. Trading stock quotes on Yahoo are downloaded to the "DownloadedData" worksheet Setting up the macro for different types of trading data The open source VBA macro can be setup easily to download data for different stock symbols or data of different start dates and end dates.
We assume that you have completed the steps in the "Using the macro to download data from Yahoo Finance to an Excel spreadsheet" section. To download different types of trading data, the ActiveQuotesDownload macro simply requires different input values. This can be setup easily in Excel.
If later you decide to execute the macro again, all actions that you performed will be re-executed at once. As you might expect, Excel can do more than recording simple actions. In fact, Excel can also record more complex action such as importing external data. Now you know where we am going! The idea is to first start recording a macro and then import external data as shown in the previous chapter. Hence, if you import the CSV file called table.
As you can see, both macro are using an essential object to import external data, namely the QueryTable object. You can think of this object as containing a Query that produces a Table once executed. Depending on the method chosen to import data, that connection string can be quite different. In our case, we have the following connections.
The rest of the Macro is actually composed of parameters that configures the QueryTable object to obtain the appropriate behavior. There are two groups of parameters: general parameters shared by both Macros and specific parameters that are related to the data source i. Web vs. We are not going to explain every parameters here you can read the official documentation to this purpose , but only the most important ones. RefreshStyle property tells how the data should be written into the given Excel sheet.
Should the new table override exiting data or should it be inserted? Instead, you should use xlOverwriteCells in order to override cells containing data. Refresh is not a property but a method: it execute the query and start importing the data in your Excel sheet.
If you omit this line, nothing will happen. Additionally, this method can take an optional parameter called BackgroundQuery. This tells Excel if the query should execute synchronously or asynchronously. TextFileParseType indicates whether the fields in your text files are delimited by specific characters such as commas or tabs xlDelimited , or if columns are delimited by specific width xlFixedWidth.
In our case, the CSV file is delimited by characters. TextFileTextQualifier designates the type of text qualifier, i.
In our case, we let the default value xlTextQualifierDoubleQuote , i. These parameters are not important for the remaining of our task. However, the WebTables property is an essential parameter to import data from Web pages, as it indicates which tables that appear on the Web page should be imported. In this case, table number 15 is imported, but it is possible to import more than one table at once.
The key idea is then to set up a QueryTable objet for a text file as this corresponds to the returned data , while uing the address of the Yahoo Finance API in the connection string. The resulting connection string is therefore as follow:. And these are parameters with their values that should be used to configure and correctly import the data from the received CSV file:. Now, using the above connection string and parameters, we can build a macro that is able to automatically download historical data from Yahoo Finance:.
Not only is this solution elegant, it is also very efficient! In fact, we do not need to parse or format the using a slow loop, as this is directly done by the QueryTable object. One suggestion is to try MT4, lots of brokers offer it, and you can download historical data directly from the platform. Remember me Log in. Lost your password? Your personal data will be used to support your experience throughout this website, to manage access to your account, and for other purposes described in our privacy policy.
Table Of Contents. What is the Free Spreadsheet? Learn More About Membership. Other Articles You Might Like. Prateek says: Excellent article. Improve this question. What have you tried? See stackoverflow. I do not extract information from Yahoo but I have and do extract information from other websites and electronic files. The authors of such data regularly change the format an extra column here or a rearrangement there. Perhaps they think they are improving it or perhaps they wish to discourage its use in this way.
Either way, there is no point starting this type of extraction unless you are able to update your routines quickly after each format change. If someone here helped you update your routine, it would only delay the need for you to be able do it yourself. Show 4 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. Try this. Please click the check to say the answer is useful if this solution helps you.
Improve this answer. I tried your Macro but I received an error: run-time error '5' "Invalid procedure call or argument" the problem is in the line 4 ". You can comment out that line and run it once more. You have to figure it our yourself, or wait until I get back to the US. Again, I'm in Spain, and everything here is translated into Spanish automatically. Weird, but true.
Or, try to resolve the issue yourself.
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