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Just use Yahoo Finance like the rest of the punters out there. Why on earth would you scrape data this way when Yahoo gives you a simple, clean, dummy proof API
by lrm242 15y ago
Just use Yahoo Finance like the rest of the punters out there. Why on earth would you scrape data this way when Yahoo gives you a simple, clean, dummy proof API. You can get end of day prices, dividend information, volume, all sorts of information.
- veyron 15y agoI'm guessing the target audience isnt particularly sophisticated, given that their "in-depth" howto on the linux kernel consists of menuconfig: http://how-to.linuxcareer.com/in-depth-howto-on-linux-kernel-configuration http://how-to.linuxcareer.com/in-depth-howto-on-linux-kernel...
- eli 15y agoYeah, but the old (unofficial) Yahoo API is just a URL that gives a CSV file you could open in Excel (or OpenOffice, whatever)
- mynameishere 15y agoAmeritrade and Interactive Brokers have real APIs (C# and Java/C++ respectively) if anyone is interested.