On 09/02/2010 08:15 PM, Hidura wrote:
But what kind of data you want to download?, because the financial
time it's basicly html code and you can work very well with a parser

2010/9/2, Virgil Stokes<v...@it.uu.se>:
   Has anyone written code or worked with Python software for downloading
financial time series data (e.g. from Yahoo financial)? If yes,  would you
please contact me.

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Here is a snippet of python code that I am trying to use for downloading financial data; but, I do not understand why it returns information from the second HTML page.

  import urllib2
  '''
   I am trying to read each row of the table at:
    http://finance.yahoo.com/q/cp?s=^GSPC
  '''
  ticker = []
url = urllib2.urlopen("http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv...@%5egspc&f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv&h=PAGE".replace('PAGE', str(0)))
  data = url.read()

Note, it does get all 50 rows of the first page; but, why does it also get the first row of the "next" HTML page?

--V



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