I have noticed that the download of the Reuters news is not working anymore. Indeed, the system halts after some symbols updates.

For example, I'm unable to update the news for the symbols list of S&P 500

If it was "not working anymore" as you've just supposed, neither you would be able to update "some symbols" nor it would work perfectly for me right now when I successfully ran it on a Dow 30 symbol. The provider is functioning correctly. Maybe its a connectivity issue, or they're curbing excessive usage, or some symbol returned an unexpected data and the process hang. By the way, which symbol was it as I couldn't find it in your message?

Eugene, It's not a problem with my internet connection because I can update the S&P 500 list without problems if I select Google News.
I have this problem only with Reuters News. There is no specific symbol which blocks the download. I can update one day only 10 symbols and the day after 20,

This mornings, the download stops after AOC. There is no error message.

QUOTE:
Updating Provider Reuters news ...
A 45 news items updated
AA 37 news items updated
AAPL 70 news items updated
ABC 35 news items updated
ABT 50 news items updated
ACAS 11 news items updated
ACS 1 news items updated
ADBE 23 news items updated
ADI 23 news items updated
ADM 34 news items updated
ADP 22 news items updated
ADSK 22 news items updated
AEE 21 news items updated
AEP 22 news items updated
AES 39 news items updated
AET 42 news items updated
AFL 24 news items updated
AGN 46 news items updated
AIG 39 news items updated
AIV 26 news items updated
AIZ 20 news items updated
AKAM 20 news items updated
AKS 16 news items updated
ALL 14 news items updated
ALTR 24 news items updated
AMAT 17 news items updated
AMD 22 news items updated
AMGN 80 news items updated
AMP 13 news items updated
AMT 35 news items updated
AMZN 39 news items updated
AN 3 news items updated
ANF 22 news items updated
AOC 0 news items updated

It's a problem on your end. The provider is functioning absolutely correctly. I've just updated Reuters News for S&P 500 (using recently updated Yahoo! Classification Groups) which took me 5,180 HTTP requests in total (which means that slightly over 10 HTML pages are processed per each symbol on average). Below you see the log:

QUOTE:
Updating Provider Reuters news ...

A 45 news items updated
AA 37 news items updated
AAPL 70 news items updated
ABBV 61 news items updated
ABC 35 news items updated
ABT 50 news items updated
ACE 21 news items updated
ACN 111 news items updated
ACT 97 news items updated
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ADP 22 news items updated
ADS 36 news items updated
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ADT 28 news items updated
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AEP 22 news items updated
AES 39 news items updated
AET 42 news items updated
AFL 24 news items updated
AGN 46 news items updated
AIG 39 news items updated
AIV 26 news items updated
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ALL 14 news items updated
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AME 26 news items updated
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AMGN 80 news items updated
AMP 13 news items updated
AMT 35 news items updated
AMZN 39 news items updated
AN 3 news items updated
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APH 21 news items updated
ARG 25 news items updated
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Provider update complete for Reuters news
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Update completed (44 min 15.521 sec)
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Some stocks failed (BF-B, BRK-B expectedly: invalid tickers at Reuters; KORS, WLP might have done for some other reason) which was gracefully handled by the provider as expected.

One question Eugene : Have you done with the Wealth-lab 32 bits version ou 64 bits ? On my side, I'm using the 32 bits at this time.
In any case, I will retry to download without my anti-virus to check if there is an impact or not.

I'm using 64-bit version with enough RAM. Disabling A/V is a good idea.

I try again to download Reuters news without my antivirus. Unfortunately, I have the same problem. Can you try with the 32 bits version on your side ?

I would like to add that when I try to close the windows, the system starts the cancel process but never finish it. I need to kill the Wealth-lab with the Windows task manager.

I do not plan to investigate under 32-bit version. It's not worth it. For now, I recommend to use 64-bit version for there's no excuse to not use it. However, in a future release of Reuters News provider I'll make a code change that has demonstrated a positive effect in other providers and remedied some problems. If it works, great, and if it wasn't related, you can always stick with 64-bit version.

Alexandre,

Give the latest version 2015.01 a try. Happy New Year!

Hi Eugene,

I have again the same problem. I try to download news from a dataset with more than 1 000 symbols and the system looks like to freeze after some time.

Is it possible for you to check ?

Alexandre,

Clearly you're pushing the limits of the free service. As a workaround try to split your DataSet into chunks and manually update them through the day one by one in "Update DataSet" mode (w/o the "Pricing"), or use Google News.

Good luck!

Alexandre, I can confirm there's an issue when Wealth-Lab randomly "freezes after some time" during update of Reuters news items. Thanks for reporting it. After revamping the download routine to comply with modern patterns, downloading the news for several hundred stocks went just fine. Look for the fix in upcoming update v2018.03 of the library.

Fixed. Please update the library.

The Reuters news provider is currently broken by a website breaking change:

1) Forced Reuters Instrument Code (RIC) which is quite odd. For example, you get the data for MSFT.O and a "404 RIC not found" for MSFT. Needless to say no static data provider would return the data for MSFT.O, making workarounds complex and error-prone.

2) The old links with extensive stock news history are replaced with a new API. Adapting to the change would take a rewrite of the downloader. The real bad news here is that the new data is much more humble: just a dozen of latest key developments. Formerly there could be hundreds.

The data for MSFT.O goes back some whopping 2 weeks which to my mind defeats the purpose of rebuilding the historical news provider. Sad to say but the Reuters News provider is pending deletion from MS123 Fundamental/News in November 2019. Please consider a switch to the WSJ News provider.