From: Vitor Peres <dodecaphonic@...>
Date: 2007-12-06T03:46:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Need to parse a HTML table into an Array/hash

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I should say, even if a bit late, that Yahoo! Finance provides data in CSV
format -- you can specify a start and end date, and it gives you the
closings for each day in the range. It's easier than screen scraping.

Historical data can be obtained with the following URL:

http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?&s=[quote name]&a=[start
month]&b=[start_day]&c=[start_year]&d=[end_month]&e=[end_day]&f=[end_year]&g=d&ignore=.csv

Substitute each bracketed info with the corresponding number. Leave the
brackts out, of course.

You can get data for the current quote in:

http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=[quote name]&f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv

Just put in the name of the thingie and you'll be fine.

-Vitor

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