well I have dealt with this problem and you can get tickers from yahoo site
in quite good format:
use URL http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv and for
each symbol you want to get a quote for, add "s" parameter.
For example:
http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv&s=MSFT&s=SUNW
would retrieve the quotes of Microsoft (MSFT) and Sun (SUNW).
The format of the output is comma delimited list with the following fields:
ticker, last close, date, time, change, open, high, low, volume
I have experienced that sometimes their data is not very correct and not up
to date, but most of the time it is quite ok.
Maybe helps you...
Neeme
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Diethelm Guallar,
> Gonzalo
> Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2000 1:53 AM
> To: 'JetSpeed'
> Subject: RE: A stock ticker in Jetspeed?
>
>
> > > My boss asked me if we could place a stock ticker on
> > > a Jetspeed-based site, and I just said "yes", without
> > > knowing jacksh*t about how a ticker works...
> >
> > :)
>
> I've gotten so used to the answer "it can be done" when
> it comes to Open Source, that I can see I'll very likely
> get in deep sh*t one of these days...
>
> > I have thought about this. Basically it would require a Daemon that
> > kept a Hashtable to resolve tickers -> prices and then a
> portlet would
> > just provide a UI to this.
>
> Ok. We could have a separate daemon, or we could make this
> part of the feeds daemon, right?
>
> > The problem is that all this stock information is copyright
> > NASDAQ, NYSE
> > so there isn't a public information store :(.
>
> Well, that's not really a problem. If there is no source
> for the information, the question is moot, and someone
> at our client's site will have to figure out a way to
> get to it: pay for it, type it in, whatever. I'm more
> interested in the technical side of it. Do you know if
> there is a standard format for this kind of information?
>
> Also, what do companies like Yahoo do about this? They
> do show stock information for companies on their web
> pages; do they pay for it?
>
>
> --
> Gonzalo A. Diethelm
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