Does anyone know why the API described here https://bitcoincharts.com/about/markets-api/ doesn't work?
Examples listed on the page are:
Latest mtgoxUSD trades:
http://api.bitcoincharts.com/v1/trades.csv?symbol=mtgoxUSD
btcexYAD trades after 1303100000:
http://api.bitcoincharts.com/v1/trades.csv?symbol=btcexYAD&start=1303100000
But it just send back no data.
Does anyone have an idea or an alternative?
Examples listed on the page are:
Latest mtgoxUSD trades:
http://api.bitcoincharts.com/v1/trades.csv?symbol=mtgoxUSD
btcexYAD trades after 1303100000:
http://api.bitcoincharts.com/v1/trades.csv?symbol=btcexYAD&start=1303100000
But it just send back no data.
Does anyone have an idea or an alternative?
mtgox is not alive anymore and not listed in Bitcoinwisdom, so that must be the reason
and btcex is closed since 2012 it seems, so the reason why there is no data about them
I don't know where get so precise data about ancient dead exchanges and why would you need them

Well, http://api.bitcoincharts.com/v1/csv/mtgoxUSD.csv.gz is available (but due to the sheer size hard to query) so I thought it'd be a bug or something? You are right thought that http://api.bitcoincharts.com/v1/trades.csv?symbol=bitstampUSD is still working.
I'm interested on precise old mtGox data because mtGox dictated the market price in early (up until 2011 at least) years and I want to analyze the data. Starting 2012 I can switch to Bitstamp I guess but a shame to not have access to the data before that.
edit:
Bitstamp starts in September of 2011 on bitcoincharts
I am not sure about what historical Mt Gox data you are having difficulty accessing or the means that you are attempting to use.
I found that just using regular browser access, you can access Gox data back to about July 2010 (traded between $.06 and $.12, which is quite the wow factor)...
http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg60zig6-hourzczsg2010-7-2zeg2011-12-24ztgMzm1g10zm2g25zv