Where And How To Get The Equity Historical Data (at Least Covers 2008)?

I can use the following code to get historical data from Google Finance. But the oldest is from 2016-09-20. This is too short for back testing. I need historical data which covers

Solution 1:

Use fix-yahoo-finance and then use yahoo rather than Google as your source. It looks like Google has been locking down a lot of its data lately.

First you'll need to pip-install fix-yahoo-finance.

Then:

from pandas_datareader import data
import fix_yahoo_finance

aapl = data.get_data_yahoo('AAPL', start='2000-01-01')

print(aapl.head())
               Open     High      Low    Close  Adj Close     Volume
Date                                                                
2000-01-03  3.74554  4.01786  3.63170  3.99777    3.59662  133949200
2000-01-04  3.86607  3.95089  3.61384  3.66071    3.29338  128094400
2000-01-05  3.70536  3.94866  3.67857  3.71429    3.34158  194580400
2000-01-06  3.79018  3.82143  3.39286  3.39286    3.05240  191993200
2000-01-07  3.44643  3.60714  3.41071  3.55357    3.19699  115183600