Thanks, Patrick. I have been playing with this downloader and noticed two anomalies that I would like to raise to you:
1. I noticed that some stocks are not shown in the data. For example, EFTC split on June 2, 2010, but the downloader does not show that split. I went back to the Yahoo page and it is also not showing there.
2. In some cases, a split is listed twice in the downloader. For example, ABC was split in 2009. The downloader shows two dates (29/05/2009 and 16/06/2009), with the same announced date of 19-May.
Do you know why these are happening and how to fix them?
Thank you for creating this download functionality. I downloaded split information and cross checked it back to Yahoo and I found something interesting. I know that you pull data from Yahoo, but it seems that Yahoo has 2 databases, and unfortunately they do not agree. Yahoo lists split info in 3 places, namely at the bottom of their Basic Charts, on their monthly split calendar, and in their historical quotes..... and these don't match. The downloaded data matches the monthly split calendar, but that data is incorrect and incomplete compare to the other sources (which are used for quotes). Here are some examples:
The first link matches the downloadable data, and the second and third show the correct data. What a mess.....
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