With the overhaul of Yahoo's website, there's no longer a way to extract a solid history of upgrades/downgrades - just last 5 items w/o a timestamp. Consequently, the broken Analyst Ratings fundamental provider will be decommissioned in the next update of MS123 Fundamental/News providers.

Since Y! is useless now in this aspect, you're welcome to speak up if you have a candidate for the new analyst ratings provider. It's important that the website you're suggesting shall be free - as we already have a Zacks Analyst Ratings provider as part of the Quandl provider suite.

After rejecting some websites, one natural candidate with data going back 1 year is:

https://www.marketbeat.com/stocks/NASDAQ/AAPL/?MostRecent=0

The MarketBeat analyst ratings provider has been released.

* Online user guide in the Wiki
* Direct installation link

I've just discovered that Yahoo's new web page grabs up to almost 20 years worth of anlayst ratings data for a stock internally but displays only the last five or so items for whatever reason. That'd be a mistake to lose such as an extensive source of fundamental items.

The Yahoo! Analyst Ratings provider will be rebuilt and available in v2017.07 of the library.

Stumbled onto this thread and thought I'd post an update. The Yahoo! Analyst Ratings and MarketBeat Analyst Ratings providers were broken by internal changes at the websites. Fixed in v2019.09 of MS123 Fundamental/News providers. See post #2 above for installation link.