API for fetching historical Vanguard NAV prices?

[Aaron Stacy]

I've got a script that fetches prices for Vanguard frunds from one of the APIs I found their website was making XHR's to. It looks something like (tho I also needed the "Referer: https://vanguard.com" header:

    https://api.vanguard.com/rs/cfv/global/eip-distributions-service-webservice-production-current/rs/price/daily-nav-history/0928.json?start-date=2021-09-30&end-date=2021-10-01

This has worked for most of a year, up til last month, not only for ETFs, but also Vanguard funds like their target retirement funds, and even the target retirement trust fund my company uses for the 401k, but now I'm getting 404s.

I've found this will give me JSON of today's price (but not historical):

    https://invproductsui.vanguard.com/content/site-services/market-data/0928

And this will give me HTML of historical prices, but not for the Target Retirement 2050 Trust fund my company uses for their 401k:

    https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/tools/pricehistorysearch?radio=1&results=get&FundType=ExchangeTradedShares&FundIntExt=INT&FundId=0928&fundName=0928&radiobutton2=1&beginDate=01/01/2020&endDate=01/02/2020&year=

Does anyone know of APIs to fetch NAV prices for these funds by date?

[Aaron Stacy]

...and I can answer my own question, but I'll post it here in case it saves anyone else some time:

The JSON API that now works came from inspecting this page, and searching through the XHRs for the NAV price listed. This came up (no headers seem to be needed):

    https://eds.ecs.gisp.c1.vanguard.com/eds-eip-distributions-service/price/daily-nav-history/7743.json?start-date=2021-10-08&end-date=2021-10-09

Where "7743" is the FIID (fund ID? IDK), and while I don't remember where I originally got 7743, I think it was in the malformed OFX export XML from logging into my Vanguard portal.

[Aaron Stacy]

And of course feel free to share if anyone has ideas for getting stuff like this from a proper API 🙂

[Chris Berkhout]

The data comes in HTML but this looks like a pretty clean and self-explanatory interface for Vanguard US:

    https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/tools/pricehistorysearch

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