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I am trying to get RSI indicator from yahoo finance api.

so far I can get quote in CSV format, but there seems no api for specific indicator such as RSI.

Anyone knows how ?

thanks

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    is there any reason why you don't just calculate them? the benefit of that is that you could change the parameters if you ever wanted to, this is especially useful for defining which MA is used.
    – MD-Tech
    Jan 15, 2016 at 15:20

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Still working on exact answer to question....for now:

(BONUS) Here is how to pull a graphical chart with the required data:

Technical Indicators 2

    Here you can declare the second part of technical indicators.

    If you have more than one seperate them with ",".

    This part is valid for the following indicators:

    MACD 
    MFI 
    ROC 
    RSI 
    Slow_Stoch 
    Fast_Stoch 
    Vol_MA 
    W_R

    **Add to the end of the URL "&a=" and for each indicator the tag.**

Therefore:

http://chart.finance.yahoo.com/z?s=GOOG&t=6m&q=l&l=on&z=l&p=m50,e200,v&a=r14

As r14 = the indicator for RSI. The above pull would pull Google, 6months, line chart, linear, large, with a 50 day moving average, a 200 day exponential moving average, volume, and followed up with RSI.

Reference Link:

Finance Yahoo! API's

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  • thanks for reply, but this gives result as an image, i need data for example, a value of RSI so that i can work with it.
    – user1225072
    Sep 3, 2015 at 4:28
  • Can you show me what you are pulling for data as of now in CSV format? I'm thinking the only way is to use the data and calculate the EMA's then calculate the RSI. I don't see a 'pull' option in the API for RSI in CSV format.
    – Ross
    Sep 3, 2015 at 13:24
  • adding r14 into the string such as: download.finance.yahoo.com/d/… doesn't work - I tested it
    – MD-Tech
    Sep 3, 2015 at 15:37
  • currently i can only download quote data as @MD-Tech did which doesn't contain RSI column. I can, however, manually calculate with a java program i made, but result is not so good as I found discrepancies comparing to yahoo result. Too bad, i can't find a way to pull RSI data
    – user1225072
    Sep 5, 2015 at 4:02
  • Yeah a lot of calculations from xxxxx.finance.com etc. have different calculations than what you might find elsewhere. Probably the only way thought but as long as you test vs different sources the numbers should be close.
    – Ross
    Sep 8, 2015 at 12:43

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