Sep 02, 2018 · If you’re wondering about the Google Finance API, it was shut down on October 20, 2012. Luckily, there are many Google Finance API alternatives, including the Yahoo Finance API. This API is perfect for creating or integrating with a finance or stock market application or website. Connect to API. Excel: stock prices from Google Finance - Office Watch This time we’ll use the improved Query system in recent versions of Excel combined with data from Google Finance. It’s a sad indictment of Microsoft Office that the best place to get stock data is Google. Google’s version of Excel is Sheets and that has a nifty function that grabs stock prices right into …