Failed to get ticker '<Tickername>' reason: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

[rajanpanchal]

Describe bug

when downloading tickers I am seeing "Failed to get ticker 'AXON' reason: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)" . Only some tickers are successful rest all failing with same error. I have checked these tickers exists at finance.yahoo.com

Simple code that reproduces your problem

` data = yf.download(tickers, period='6mo', interval='1wk', auto_adjust=True, progress=True)```

Debug log

Failed to get ticker 'RSG' reason: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
[**********************94%********************   ]  811 of 860 completedFailed to get ticker 'TSM' reason: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
[**********************94%********************   ]  812 of 860 completedFailed to get ticker 'SPG' reason: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
[**********************95%*********************  ]  813 of 860 completedFailed to get ticker 'CSX' reason: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
[**********************95%*********************  ]  814 of 860 completedFailed to get ticker 'MTB' reason: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
Failed to get ticker 'BHP' reason: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
[**********************96%*********************  ]  827 of 860 completedFailed to get ticker 'INTC' reason: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
[**********************96%*********************  ]  828 of 860 completedFailed to get ticker 'TRI' reason: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
[**********************97%********************** ]  831 of 860 completedFailed to get ticker 'UMC' reason: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
Failed to get ticker 'DOW' reason: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
[**********************97%********************** ]  837 of 860 completedFailed to get ticker 'ELV' reason: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
Failed to get ticker 'CPNG' reason: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

Bad data proof

yfinance version

0.1.62

Python version

3

Operating system

windows 11

[ValueRaider]

Re-run with yf.enable_debug_mode() at start

[R5dan]

@rajanpanchal I managed to get it working if you specify start and end times explicitly. Something like this:

import yfinance as yf
import datetime as dt

end=dt.datetime.now()

if end.month<=6:
    start = end.replace(year=end.year-1, month=12+(end.month-6))
else:
    start = end.replace(month=end.month-6)

data = yf.download("AXON", interval='1wk', end=end, start=start)

The error seems to be with the yahoo finance api itself as I can't get any stock data for anything with interval='1wk' and setting period.