"Chris Mosser" <cmosser_at_comcast_dot_net> wrote:
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> I'm looking to add a page to my site where I can get stock quotes for the
> wired, but more importantly, the wireless web(ie my cell phone). I know
> how write the needed php and WAP application, I just don't know where to
> get the stock market feed, at least not without parsing a
> finance.yahoo.com page.
> Or something else like it that could change at any time. I'm looking for
> just the raw data feed. Anyone ever had to do this and can give me some
> info on a feed??????
>
> --
> Chris Mosser[/color]
Hi
I just wrote a bunch of them. :P
You CAN use Yahoo without parsing the HTML.
Use their
http://quote.yahoo.com/download/quotes.csv
Here follows a clumsy script to get you going:
(sorry, I think I exceed linelength, you have to repair by hand)
Regards,
Erwin Moller
function getAllQuotes($symbolsarray) {
// returns an array with arrays with data
$allQuotes = array();
$baseurl =
"http://quote.yahoo.com/download/quotes.csv?format=snlx&ext=.csv&symbols=";
// make the symbols urlencoded.
$urlsymbols = urlencode(implode(" ",$symbolsarray));
$quotesURL = $baseurl.$urlsymbols;
$csv = file($quotesURL);
foreach ($csv as $line_num => $line) {
// if NOT exists format: "^AEX2","^AEX2", "N/A - <b>0.00</b>",
"N/A"
// if exists format: "^AEX" ,"AEX-Index","7:37
am - <b>326.71</b>", "Amsterdam"
//
"AHOc.BA","ROYAL AHOLD","Aug 28, 2002 - <b>16.435</b>","Buenos Aires"
//
"MSFT.AS","MICROSOFT CORP","Oct 20 - <b>27.82</b>","Amsterdam"
// Please not the , in the date of AHOc.BA
// shame I don't know a better value for the 'format' in the baseurl.
:-(
// split on ","
$parts = explode("\",\"",$line);
$oneQuote = array();
$oneQuote["symbol"] = trim(trim($parts[0]) , "\"");
$oneQuote["name"] = trim(trim($parts[1]) , "\"");
$oneQuote["place"] = trim(trim($parts[3]) , "\"");
$val = trim($parts[2] , "\"");
// remove all before <b> and remove the last </b>
// remove 6:30am - <b>
$val = substr($val, strpos($val, "<b>")+3) ;
// remove </b>
$val = substr($val , 0 , -4) ;
$oneQuote["value"] = $val;
// add to allQuotes
$allQuotes[$oneQuote["symbol"]] = $oneQuote;
}
return $allQuotes;
}
