Hi, I’m on a paid PythonAnywhere account (username: ghanagirl). I’m trying to use yfinance to download stock data. The same code works on my local Windows machine, but on PythonAnywhere it always returns an empty DataFrame with a JSONDecodeError.
Here’s the exact test I ran from a Bash console inside my virtualenv:
import yfinance as yf print("Trying to download NVDA 1h data...") try: df = yf.download("NVDA", period="5d", interval="1h") print("Empty dataframe?:", df.empty) print(df.head()) except Exception as e: print("ERROR:", repr(e))
And here is the output:
Trying to download NVDA 1h data... Failed to get ticker 'NVDA' reason: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0) [***100%*****] 1 of 1 completed 1 Failed download:
Empty dataframe?: True Empty DataFrame Columns: [Open, High, Low, Close, Adj Close, Volume] Index: []
Could you please let me know if there’s an issue with yfinance/Yahoo requests from PythonAnywhere servers, or if there’s a recommended workaround (proxy, headers, or alternate endpoint)?
Thank you!
