10 ways to download historical stock quotes data for free

Here is a list of websites that provide end of day historical data for US and international stock markets.

All the
quotes data provided by the websites listed here can be exported to CSV or Excel format.

FinancialContent

Several websites use historical data provided by financial content.

chron.com is one of them and here is the URL to get the eod data.
http://markets.chron.com/chron/?Method=gethistoricalcsv&Month=7&Page=HISTORICAL&Year=2009
&Range=3&Ticker=[Symbol name]

Just change 'Symbol name' with the
ticker symbol of the company that interests you.

Yahoo

Yahoo has
historical quotes and dividend data for US and many international stock markets.

This is the URL that let you download these quotes.
http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?d=6&e=1&f=2009&g=d&a=7&b=19&c=2004
&ignore=.csv&s=[Symbol name]

You can automatically download quotes from yahoo using the following downloader
Yahoo EOD historical quotes .

Google

Google let you download daily and weekly eod quotes for US, Canada, UK, China and Hong Kong stock markets.

Here is the URL to grab this data:
http://www.google.com/finance/historical?output=csv&q=[Symbol name]

Investopedia

Investopedia provides end of day quotes, dividends and splits data for the US market.
http://simulator.investopedia.com/stocks/historicaldata.aspx?Download=1&s=[Symbol name]

Quotemedia

Quotemedia has US and Canadian stocks historical data.
http://app.quotemedia.com/quotetools/getHistoryDownload.csv?&webmasterId=501&startDay=02&startMonth=02
&startYear=2002&endDay=02&endMonth=07&endYear=2009&isRanged=false&symbol=[Symbol name]

You can automatically download quotes from quotemedia using the following downloader:
Quotemedia Historical Quotes.

Dukascopy

Download historical and intraday quotes data.

Click on the dukascopy link, select settings, and then click on 'Get Data'.

Kumo swcp

Get historical data for the S&P500 stocks in one file.

AOL

Daily, weekly and monthly historical quotes that can be exported in multiple formats.
http://finance.aol.com/.module/download/pfweb/historical/[Symbol name]?type=2&symbol=[Symbol name]

&tf=m&gran=d&fromdate=%24%7Bhist.fromdata%7D

MSN

MSN provides eod data for the US stock exchanges.
http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/charts/chartdl.aspx?D4=1&DD=1&MA0=0&MA1=0&CF=0&PT=7&SZ=0&D5=0&
DCS=2&C1=0&C2=1&width=612&height=258&D2=0&CE=0&

filedownloadbt.x=59&filedownloadbt.y=12&symbol=[Symbol name]

FinData

Registration is FREE but you can get only the eod data of the last 6 months.