Hi all,
Hi, I am looking for some stock symbol look-up API. I could able to query yahoo finance with a symbol & could able to retrieve the stock price & other details.
Is there any API for stock symbol searches
Any help would be great ..
Thanks
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A:
You could use Python's urllib or the mechanise library to scrape the data from a website which publishes this data. Mechanise would be a better choice if the website requires some interaction before you can get hold of the data (like logging in).
EDIT - for getting stock quote for BT from Yahoo's UK site:
>>> import urllib
>>> import re
>>> data = urllib.urlopen('http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=BT&m=L&d=').read()
>>> re.search('<span id="yfs_l10_bt-a\.l".*?>([0-9.]+)', data).group(1)
'122.00'
The id in the regular expression was taken by viewing the source of the page and finding the id of the tag that surrounded the data required.
awatts
2010-05-26 07:31:09
Any sample code plz...........
Nimmy
2010-05-26 07:37:58
You may be better off using [BeautifulSoup][1] than regular expressions for screen-scraping a web-page. [1] http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
Johnsyweb
2010-05-26 08:16:55
A similar question has already been asked here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1763310/yahoo-finance-api
awatts
2010-05-26 21:23:07
urllib vs. urllib2 question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2018026/should-i-use-urllib-or-urllib2
dmi
2010-05-28 10:44:12
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A:
As an alternative to parsing the HTML you could be downloading a clean pre-formatted .csv file. See the tutorial at http://www.gummy-stuff.org/Yahoo-data.htm. Found it in the question awatts linked to.
dmi
2010-05-28 08:38:33
Thanks for pointing that out. I hadn't really looked into it in detail, but that's a much better idea. Python has a csv module which would likely help too.
awatts
2010-05-30 21:34:15
A:
Take a look at the Company Fundamentals API at http://www.mergent.com/servius
Eugene Osovetsky
2010-10-19 06:31:47