libURL get request Yahoo Quotes

[Sarah]

Hi Kevin,

You are not wasting anybody's time and I apologise if I gave that  
impression. The only thing is, that it is very hard to work out what  
your problem can be without a bit more detail. Monte has assumed that  
you are using POST but you may not be.

When I did this successfully, I did something like:

put URL  
"http://table.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv? 
s=AAPL&d=11&e=1&f=2003&g=d&a=10&b=1&c=2003&ignore=.csv" into tData

(put the script on a single line)

This gives me a comma-delimited set of data covering Apple's November  
stock prices.
If you work out the parameters (a,b,c,d,e,f specify the dates, S is the  
stock code) you can construct the URL on the fly and then get the data  
directly.

I hope this helps but if I have misunderstood what you are trying to  
do, please ask again, perhaps including some of the scripts you are  
using.

Cheers,
Sarah
sarahr at genesearch.com.au
http://www.troz.net/Rev/

On 26 Nov 2003, at 11:52 am, Kevin Wood wrote:

> My apologies for wasting your time.  Being new to Runtime Revolution I  
> misunderstood the documentation.
>
> Kevin
>
> On Monday, November 24, 2003, at 12:31  AM, Sarah wrote:
>
>> I've done this without any problem so I would like to hear more  
>> details of your processing failures. Have you checked out the  
>> libURLSetLogField command? It is very good for debugging connection  
>> problems as it allows you to see all the underlying messages that are  
>> coming & going.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Sarah
>> sarahr at genesearch.com.au
>> http://www.troz.net/Rev/
>>
>> On 23 Nov 2003, at 5:17 pm, Kevin Wood wrote:
>>
>>> I am building a stack which will download quotes from Yahoo finance.  
>>>  However, the csv format download sends a file (table.csv) which  
>>> seems to fail processing by the library.  Any ideas on surmounting  
>>> this problem?
>>>
>>>
>>> Kevin
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