Can you use XML to get stock quote information from Yahoo?

[vlw]

Hi there. I'm new to web programming, and would like to write an application capable of retrieving market quote information from Yahoo? I believe this should be done in XML, though I have no idea how to go about it. Could someone please help me with this?

Thanks in advance. I posted this question in "General" but nobody there knows how to do it either.

[khalidali63]

XML itself has nothing to do with getting the stock qoutes.Its the application that uses XML file to retrieve data from.

If a server(it could be yahoo) serves data in XML format then your application may read that XML file and print it as desired.

Cheers

Khalid

[vlw]

Thanks, khalidali63. Another part of my questions is, how can I write an application that can tell yahoo the quote I'm looking for? Doing this manually is easy: I just go to finance.yahoo.com, enter a ticker, and press "get quote". How can I automate this process?

Thanks again.

[Jona]

This probably wouldn't use XML at all. You have to get that data from the form, and Yahoo probably won't allow you to use their database and/or bandwidth. So you'd be better off making your own server-side script. :)

[web-eagle]

Just spotted this while "shopping" for scripts. Don't know if it works, but it might be worth your while to look. Give you a place to start anyway :)


Get Stock Quote's - joeaic
This little script will grab stock quote info from finance.yahoo.com. The script is kind of crude. Something I wrote while learning php.

http://www.phpbuilder.com/snippet/detail.php?type=snippet&id=163

edit;

Here's one more. Best of luck.....

Stock Information Retrieval (c.ticker.php) jmp1024
This class will retrieve information from Yahoo's finance site and put it into a nice, usable, class variable for you to use elsewhere at your leisure. Example usage is in the class comments.

http://www.phpbuilder.com/snippet/detail.php?type=snippet&id=286