[Tutor] retrieving stock quotes

[Timothy Wilson]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, dman wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 09:57:55PM -0600, Timothy Wilson wrote:
> | On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Timothy Wilson wrote:
> | 
> | > Does anyone know of an ftp site or Web site that has fairly current stock
> | > quotes in an easily parsable format?
> | 
> | <lame self-reply>
> | Very cool! I happened upon exactly what I needed. Go to
> | http://finance.yahoo.com/ and enter a ticker symbol (RHAT, for
> 
> The only thing to beware of is it seems that yahoo likes to change the
> HTML layout of the page rather often.  Depending on the nature of the
> change and the nature of your parser, this may or may not have an
> effect.

That's why I'm retrieving the raw data in CSV form. For example:

http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=sgi&f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv

gets the raw data for SGI. That should be a lot less likely to change over
time.

-Tim

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