Make that approx 52.
--- In [email protected], "brian_z321" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> At the time of writing Yahoo!Finance lists 37,696 tickers from
approx
> 523 exchanges world wide.
>
> They even list the NZ exchange when nobody, except those from Rugby
> Union playing nations, even know that the country exits.
>
> My programming expertise doesn't extend past what I have learnt
from
> AmiBroker in one single year but I am seriously thinking that I
could
> manage to learn how to scrape that list for my own use.
>
> Instead of depending on others why not do it for ourselves?
>
> How about a public project, right on this site, where a community
> effort lays out the script, or an example of it, so that we can all
> learn how to do it and manage our own updates and script tuning in
> future.
>
> Pie in the sky?
>
>
> Positions vacant:
>
> Project leader, programmers, secretary and working bees.
>
>
> Put up now or for ever hold your peace.
>
>
> http://biz.yahoo.com/i/
>
> http://finance.yahoo.com/exchanges
>
> Brian.
>
> P.S. in the unlikely event that we actually do something I will be
> watching from the bleaches; sorry I'm too bsuy elsewhere and lack
the
> skill-set for a public effort.
>
