From: Vitor Peres <dodecaphonic@...>
Date: 2007-12-19T18:53:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Hpricot syntax different from Xpath ?

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On Dec 18, 2007 8:34 PM, Celine <xhanrot@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Chris, thanks for your answer
> Here is the page I'm working with : http://finance.yahoo.com
> I want to retrieve value of Nasdaq (up left of the page).
> I sent the same message on Hpricot ML this afternoon, actually no
> answer.
>
>
Hi, Celine.

I know it's not nearly as fun as screen-scraping, but you can get the value
for Nasdaq (and many other quotes) on Yahoo! Finance by querying the right
URL for the CSV. The current value can be obtained by fetching:

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

You just have replace [name] with %5EIXIC for Nasdaq. Historical data is
available (closings only) at:

http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?&s=[<http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?&s=%5Bquote>name]&a=[start
month]&b=[start_day]&c=[start
_year]&d=[end_month]&e=[end_day]&f=[end_year]&g=d&ignore=.csv

Just replace [name] with the index or stock you wish to query and each
bracketed date info with integers.

I've replied to a topic before that involved Yahoo! Finance, but it was
specifically about searching for a symbol. Since it's not your case, here's
hoping that directly fetching it will suffice.


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