Problem obtaining share price

Conor O'Neill pebbles at puddle.co.uk
Mon Jul 17 14:43:10 EDT 2006


David Hampton wrote:
> Yes, this is a problem with Yahoo.  Instead of returning the currency
> "AUD" for WCTPA.AX, or not returning any currency, yahoo is declaring
> that the currency is "".  F::Q can handle the first two, but doesn't
> handle the latter.
> 
> The attached patch should solve the problem for you.
> 
> David

Is there any source of valid price data which uses proper web services
for this data, instead of scraping the data off HTML pages?

Almost every discussion of web services seems to use stock prices as
their example application, but in practice it seems that few (if any)
real services supply this.

-- 
Conor O'Neill, at home in Bristol, UK



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