URL's

[Sarah Reichelt]

On 6/9/06, Robert Presender <rpresender at cox.net> wrote:
> Using OS 10.3.9
> This is my first venture with URL and I will appreciate a bit of help.
>
> I have gotten this far:
>
>   Ask "Enter the stock or fund symbol"
>      put it into hold
>      get "http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s="
>      put hold after last char of it
>      revGoUrl it
>
> The above brings up the web page but I can't figure out how
> to get some of the numerical data (such as the price associated
> with the symbol) from the web page.  I would like to get bits of
> information
> and put them into a field(s) of a stack card.


Bob, you may find this web page useful
<http://www.revjournal.com/tutorials/macaddict-forum-reader.html>

It's probably a bit out of date, but it is a tutorial I wrote for
revJournal that does this sort of thing.

Cheers,
Sarah