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"Neeme Praks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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...
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(sorry about the dated reply)
Holy *hit!
Where did you find that? I am sure that would almost certainly violate their
licensing with NASDAQ/NYSE :).
They probably put it out there so that their browser 'companions' (MSIE plugins)
can grab the data. Excite@Home did something similar for their client (when I
was there) but we used a somewhat decent auth mechanism..
Kevin
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