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matplotlib tutorial yahoo finance api offline

Yahoo finance api is offline, to try and keep up with tutorial use https://eodhistoricaldata.com, it only works with AAPL.US for free


def graph_data():
    stock_price_url = 'https://eodhistoricaldata.com/api/table.csv?s=AAPL.US&api_token=OeAFFmMliFG5orCUuwAKQ8l4WWFQ67YX'
    source_code = urllib.request.urlopen(stock_price_url).read().decode()
    stock_data =[]
    split_source = source_code.split('n')
    for line in split_source:
        split_line = line.split(',')
        if split_line[0] != 'Date': #ignore first line
            if (len(split_line)) == 7: #last line lenght is only 1
                stock_data.append(line)
date, openp, highp, lowp, closep, aclosep, volume = np.loadtxt(stock_data,
                                                                    delimiter=",",
                                                                    unpack=True,
                                                                    converters={0: bytespdate2num('%Y-%m-%d')}
                                                                    ) #different column order and date format