I seem to remember that Yahoo Finance has a Web-Services interface that may alloy you to get financial data. The current figured are lagged by about ten minutes or so. Take a look at the Yahoo Developer Network (http://developer.yahoo.com/) for more detail.
B On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Chas. Owens <chas.ow...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:30, Collaborate <tolg...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> I am wondering if there is a way to copy a webpage to a text file >> using Perl. All I need is to copy as unformatted text. >> >> I would like to match certain strings on pages written in javascript >> and to my understanding, www::mechnize does not work for this >> application. > > Unfortunately I know of no module that lets you run javascript. Your > best bet may be to use Win32::OLE* to puppet string Internet Explorer > for you. You may also want to look at Win32::IEAutomation**. > > * http://search.cpan.org/dist/Win32-OLE/ > ** http://search.cpan.org/dist/Win32-IEAutomation/lib/Win32/IEAutomation.pm > > > -- > Chas. Owens > wonkden.net > The most important skill a programmer can have is the ability to read. > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
