On 03/09/2010 00:56, Virgil Stokes wrote:
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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V. Stokes
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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?
Did you try downloading from a browser? That also returns an extra row.
Looks like an idiosyncrasy of the site.
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