Pandas-datareader

This is a major release from 0.5.0. We recommend that all users upgrade.

**Warning**

Yahoo!, Google Options, Google Quotes and EDGAR have been immediately deprecated.

_Note_

Google finance is still functioning for historical price data, although there are frequent reports of failures. Failure is frequently encountered when bulk downloading historical price data.

Highlights include:

* Immediate deprecation of Yahoo!, Google Options and Quotes and EDGAR. The end points behind these APIs have radically changed and the existing readers require complete rewrites. In the case of most Yahoo! data the endpoints have been removed. PDR would like to restore these features, and pull requests are welcome.
* A new connector for Tiingo was introduced. Tiingo provides historical end-of-day data for a large set of equities, ETFs and mutual funds. Free registration is required to get an API key (478).
* A new connector for Robinhood was introduced. This provides up to 1 year of historical end-of-day data. It also provides near real-time quotes. (477).
* A new connector for Morningstar Open, High, Low, Close and Volume was introduced (467)
* A new connector for IEX daily price data was introduced (465).
* A new connector for IEX the majority of the IEX API was introduced (446).
* A new data connector for stock index data provided by Stooq was introduced 447).
* A new data connector for data provided by the Bank of Canada was introduced (440).

Enhancements
- DataReader now supports Quandl, see here (361).

Backwards incompatible API changes
- Removed Oanda as it became subscription only (296).

Bug Fixes
- web sessions are closed properly at the end of use (355)
- Handle commas in large price quotes (345)
- Test suite fixes for test_get_options_data (352)
- Test suite fixes for test_wdi_download (350)
- avoid monkey patching requests.Session (301)
- get_data_yahoo() now treats 'null' strings as missing values (342)

This is a major release from 0.2.1 and includes new features and a number of bug fixes.

Highlights include:

New features
- `DataReader` now supports dividend only pulls from Yahoo! Finance (138).
- `DataReader` now supports downloading mutual fund prices from the Thrift Savings Plan (157).
- `DataReader` now supports Google options data source (148).
- `DataReader` now supports Google quotes (188).
- `DataReader` now supports Enigma dataset. (245).
- `DataReader` now supports downloading a full list of NASDAQ listed symbols. (254).

Other enhancements
- Eurostat reader now supports larger data returned from API via zip format. (205)
- Added support for Python 3.6.
- Added support for pandas 19.2

Bug Fixes
- Fixed bug that caused `DataReader` to fail if company name has a comma. (85).
- Fixed bug in `YahooOptions` caused as a result of change in yahoo website format. (244).

This is a minor release from v0.2.0 and includes new features and bug fixes.

Highlights include:

New features
- DataReader now supports Eurostat data sources, see here (101).
- Options downloading is approximately 4x faster as a result of a rewrite of the parsing function.
- DataReader and Options now support caching, see here (110),(116),(121), (122)

Backwards incompatible API changes
- Options columns PctChg and IV (Implied Volatility) are now type float rather than string.

This is a major release from 0.1.1 and includes new features and a number of bug fixes.

Highlights include:

New features
- Added latitude and longitude to output of wb.get_countries 47
- Extended DataReader to fetch dividends and stock splits from Yahoo 45.
- Added get_available_datasets to famafrench 56.
- `DataReader` now supports OECD data sources 101.

Backwards incompatible API changes
- Fama French indexes are not Pandas.PeriodIndex for annual and montly data, and
pandas.DatetimeIndex otherwise 56.

Bug Fixes
- Update Fama-French URL 53
- Fixed bug where get_quote_yahoo would fail if a company name had a comma 85

This is a minor bug-fix release of pandas-datareader.