Yahoo Search no longer working

[ymyke]

Searching via Yahoo no longer works, i.e., yields no results.

Example:

from tessa.search.yahoo import yahoo_search
res = yahoo_search("apple")
res.p()

Produces only empty buckets/results.

This also causes the test test_yahoo_search_returns_plausible_results to fail.

Presumably the reason is that Yahoo Finance started to redirect to a cookie page when it gets a new visitor/session.

• How much of a problem is this for tessa users?
• Is this a problem only in certain markets (e.g., Europe)?
• What would be a simple solution? What's a simple way to accept cookies in this case from Python and get the session id?

[ymyke]

Also, how does yfinance do it?

[ymyke]

Problem sees to be intermittent.