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A more direct question on accessing stock information from Yahoo.<br>
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First, use your browser to go to:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q/cp?s=%5EGSPC+Components">http://finance.yahoo.com/q/cp?s=%5EGSPC+Components</a><br>
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Now, you see the first 50 rows of a 500 row table of information on
S&P 500 index. You can LM click on<br>
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1 -50 of 500 |First|Previous|Next|Last<br>
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below the table to position to any of the 10 pages.<br>
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I would like to use Python to do the following.<br>
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<b>Loop on each of the 10 pages and for each page extract
information for each row --- How can this be accomplished
automatically in Python?</b><br>
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Let's take the first page (as shown by default). It is easy to see
the link to the data for "A" is <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=A">http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=A</a>. That
is, I can just move <br>
my cursor over the "A" and I see this URL in the message at the
bottom of my browser (Explorer 8). If I LM click on "A" then I will
go to this<br>
link --- Do this!<br>
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You should now see a table which shows information on this stock and
<b>this is the information that I would like to extract</b>. I would
like to do this for all 500 stocks without the need to enter the
symbols for them (e.g. "A", "AA", etc.). It seems clear that this
should be possible since all the symbols are in the first column of
each of the 50 tables --- but it is not at all clear how to extract
these automatically in Python. <br>
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Hopefully, you understand my problem. Again, I would like Python to
cycle through these 10 pages and extract this information for each
symbol in this table.<br>
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--V<br>
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