On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 14:39 -0500, Chris Devers wrote: > On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Joel Gwynn wrote: > > > Thanks. That's just the kind of recommendation I was looking for. > > Question: is this just a collection of screen-scrapers? What happens > > if Yahoo or Motley Fool, for example, overhaul their web site, or just > > adds/removes somthing that breaks it? > > It depends on HTML::TableExtract, so it seems to be screen-scraping. > > Note though that the Sourceforge home page http://finance-quote.sf.net/ > suggests that it is actively maintained, with releases from as recently > as January and going back as early as 2000, so presumably the module is > being patched as needed to keep it working with Yahoo's site.
Yeah. What Chris said. I originally came to use this module because it is a dependency of the popular Linux finance program, GnuCash[1]. Back then, I had been using GnuCash for about 18 months with great success, so I thought it safe to at least give this module a shot. I suppose I have been using this module for about 3 years now and I haven't had it fail on me yet. It suggests decent stability in the Yahoo properties and the module itself. I suspect that will continue. --Larry [1] http://www.gnucash.org/en/required.phtml _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
