Pandas-datareader: Cannot pull data from Yahoo finance but only for ^FTSE?

[tr4cefl0w]

I sometimes pull the adjusted close price from multiple indices from Yahoo finance without issues. However, tonight when trying to pull the history for the ^FTSE, I got the following error:

KeyError                                  Traceback (most recent call last)
D:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pandas_datareader\yahoo\daily.py in _read_one_data(self, url, params)
    156             j = json.loads(re.search(ptrn, resp.text, re.DOTALL).group(1))
--> 157             data = j["context"]["dispatcher"]["stores"]["HistoricalPriceStore"]
    158         except KeyError:

KeyError: 'HistoricalPriceStore'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

RemoteDataError                           Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-9-c01a49bde01f> in <module>
      4 
      5 for t in tickers:
----> 6     ind_data[t] = wb.DataReader(t, data_source='yahoo', start='1997-1-1')['Adj Close']

D:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pandas\util\_decorators.py in wrapper(*args, **kwargs)
    186                 else:
    187                     kwargs[new_arg_name] = new_arg_value
--> 188             return func(*args, **kwargs)
    189         return wrapper
    190     return _deprecate_kwarg

D:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pandas_datareader\data.py in DataReader(name, data_source, start, end, retry_count, pause, session, api_key)
    385             retry_count=retry_count,
    386             pause=pause,
--> 387             session=session,
    388         ).read()
    389 

D:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pandas_datareader\base.py in read(self)
    249         # If a single symbol, (e.g., 'GOOG')
    250         if isinstance(self.symbols, (string_types, int)):
--> 251             df = self._read_one_data(self.url, params=self._get_params(self.symbols))
    252         # Or multiple symbols, (e.g., ['GOOG', 'AAPL', 'MSFT'])
    253         elif isinstance(self.symbols, DataFrame):

D:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pandas_datareader\yahoo\daily.py in _read_one_data(self, url, params)
    158         except KeyError:
    159             msg = "No data fetched for symbol {} using {}"
--> 160             raise RemoteDataError(msg.format(symbol, self.__class__.__name__))
    161 
    162         # price data

RemoteDataError: No data fetched for symbol ^FTSE using YahooDailyReader

If I remove this indice from the list, everything work and the data appears in the DataFrame.

As far as I know, the FTSE still exist ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[bashtage]

Historical data for FTSE is not available through the website (at least in my geography) and so it isn't available to reader.

[tr4cefl0w]

Ah, my apologies, it used to be available but I haven't used it in a few years. You're right, they no longer have historical data.

[Rioba-Ian]

No data fetched for symbol ^STI using YahooDailyReader

I also got the same error while accessing the FTSE for Singaporean Index. The ^STI.
But no worries there's always a way out there