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here is a quick tip about password-protected directories conflicting with phpbb's, Drupal's and with Wordpress' front controller, resulting in "Route not found for GET / ..."  or "No route found for GET / ..."

if you create a directory using htaccess/htpasswd access protection besides or within an app using a front controller, you won't be able to access the password-protected directory or folder, but you will get an error message from phpbb, Drupal or Wordpress along the lines of "No route found for GET /<your directory>"

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I thought I would quickly setup a little stock tracker and portfolio tracker app using the easy to use and free Yahoo Finance API or Google Finance API, but oh boy, it's not a free internet anymore!
I guess the free data subscription models didn't work out, because both services have been discontinued. Open Bloomberg is history as well.

So after some research I made a shortlist of API providing free market finance data: