1YahooQuote(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation YahooQuote(3)
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6 Finance::YahooQuote - Get stock quotes from Yahoo! Finance
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9 use Finance::YahooQuote;
10 # setting TIMEOUT and PROXY is optional
11 $Finance::YahooQuote::TIMEOUT = 60;
12 $Finance::YahooQuote::PROXY = "http://some.where.net:8080";
13 @quote = getonequote $symbol; # Get a quote for a single symbol
14 @quotes = getquote @symbols; # Get quotes for a bunch of symbols
15 useExtendedQueryFormat(); # switch to extended query format
16 useRealtimeQueryFormat(); # switch to real-time query format
17 @quotes = getquote @symbols; # Get quotes for a bunch of symbols
18 @quotes = getcustomquote(["DELL","IBM"], # using custom format
19 ["Name","Book Value"]); # note array refs
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22 NOTE: As of November 2017, the module is no longer all that useful as
23 Yahoo! decided to halt the API service it relies on.
24 This module gets stock quotes from Yahoo! Finance. The getonequote
26 function will return a quote for a single stock symbol, while the
27 getquote function will return a quote for each of the stock symbols
28 passed to it. getcustomquote allows to specify a format other than the
29 default to take advantage of the extended range of available
30 information.
31 The download operation is efficient: only one request is made even if
33 several symbols are requested at once. The return value of getonequote
34 is an array, with the following elements:
35 0 Symbol
37 1 Company Name
38 2 Last Price
39 3 Last Trade Date
40 4 Last Trade Time
41 5 Change
42 6 Percent Change
43 7 Volume
44 8 Average Daily Vol
45 9 Bid
46 10 Ask
47 11 Previous Close
48 12 Today's Open
49 13 Day's Range
50 14 52-Week Range
51 15 Earnings per Share
52 16 P/E Ratio
53 17 Dividend Pay Date
54 18 Dividend per Share
55 19 Dividend Yield
56 20 Market Capitalization
57 21 Stock Exchange
58 If the extended format has been selected, the following fields are also
60 retrieved:
61 22 Short ratio
63 23 1yr Target Price
64 24 EPS Est. Current Yr
65 25 EPS Est. Next Year
66 26 EPS Est. Next Quarter
67 27 Price/EPS Est. Current Yr
68 28 Price/EPS Est. Next Yr
69 29 PEG Ratio
70 30 Book Value
71 31 Price/Book
72 32 Price/Sales
73 33 EBITDA
74 34 50-day Moving Avg
75 35 200-day Moving Avg
76 If the real-time format has been selected, the following fields are
78 also retrieved:
79 36 Ask (real-time)
81 37 Bid (real-time)
82 38 Change in Percent (real-time)
83 39 Last trade with time (real-time)
84 40 Change (real-time)
85 41 Day range (real-time)
86 42 Market-cap (real-time)
87 The getquote function returns an array of pointers to arrays with the
89 above structure.
90 The getonequote function returns just one quote, rather than an array.
92 It returns a simple array of values for the given symbol.
93 The setQueryString permits to supply a new query string that will be
95 used for subsequent data requests.
96 The useExtendedQueryFormat and useRealtimeQueryFormat are simpler
98 interfaces which append symbols to the default quote string, as
99 detailed above.
100 The getcustomquote returns an array of quotes corresponding to values
102 for the symbols supplied in the first array reference, and the custom
103 fields supplied in the second array reference. Here the custom fields
104 correspond to the 'named' fields of the list below.
105 Beyond stock quotes, Finance::YahooQuote can also obtain quotes for
107 currencies (from the Philadephia exchange -- however Yahoo! appears to
108 have stopped to support the currency symbols in a reliable manner), US
109 mutual funds, options on US stocks, several precious metals and quite
110 possibly more; see the Yahoo! Finance website for full information.
111 Finance::YahooQuote can be used for stocks from the USA, Canada,
112 various European exchanges, various Asian exchanges (Singapore, Taiwan,
113 HongKong, Kuala Lumpur, ...) Australia and New Zealand. It should work
114 for other markets supported by Yahoo.
115 You may optionally override the default LWP timeout of 180 seconds by
117 setting $Finance::YahooQuote::TIMEOUT to your preferred value.
118 You may also provide a proxy (for the required http connection) by
120 using the variable $Finance::YahooQuote::PROXY. Furthermore,
121 authentication-based proxies can be used by setting the proxy user and
122 password via the variables $Finance::YahooQuote::PROXYUSER and
123 $Finance::YahooQuote::PROXYPASSWD.
124 Two example scripts are provided to help with the mapping a stock
126 symbols as well as with Yahoo! Finance server codes. The regression
127 tests scripts in the t/ subdirectory of the source distribution also
128 contain simple examples.
129 The available custom fields
131 The following list contains all the available data fields at Yahoo!
132 along with the corresponding format string entry:
133 Symbol s
135 Name n
136 Last Trade (With Time) l
137 Last Trade (Price Only) l1
138 Last Trade Date d1
139 Last Trade Time t1
140 Last Trade Size k3
141 Change and Percent Change c
142 Change c1
143 Change in Percent p2
144 Ticker Trend t7
145 Volume v
146 Average Daily Volume a2
147 More Info i
148 Trade Links t6
149 Bid b
150 Bid Size b6
151 Ask a
152 Ask Size a5
153 Previous Close p
154 Open o
155 Day's Range m
156 52-week Range w
157 Change From 52-wk Low j5
158 Pct Chg From 52-wk Low j6
159 Change From 52-wk High k4
160 Pct Chg From 52-wk High k5
161 Earnings/Share e
162 P/E Ratio r
163 Short Ratio s7
164 Dividend Pay Date r1
165 Ex-Dividend Date q
166 Dividend/Share d
167 Dividend Yield y
168 Float Shares f6
169 Market Capitalization j1
170 1yr Target Price t8
171 EPS Est. Current Yr e7
172 EPS Est. Next Year e8
173 EPS Est. Next Quarter e9
174 Price/EPS Est. Current Yr r6
175 Price/EPS Est. Next Yr r7
176 PEG Ratio r5
177 Book Value b4
178 Price/Book p6
179 Price/Sales p5
180 EBITDA j4
181 50-day Moving Avg m3
182 Change From 50-day Moving Avg m7
183 Pct Chg From 50-day Moving Avg m8
184 200-day Moving Avg m4
185 Change From 200-day Moving Avg m5
186 Pct Chg From 200-day Moving Avg m6
187 Shares Owned s1
188 Price Paid p1
189 Commission c3
190 Holdings Value v1
191 Day's Value Change w1,
192 Holdings Gain Percent g1
193 Holdings Gain g4
194 Trade Date d2
195 Annualized Gain g3
196 High Limit l2
197 Low Limit l3
198 Notes n4
199 Last Trade (Real-time) with Time k1
200 Bid (Real-time) b3
201 Ask (Real-time) b2
202 Change Percent (Real-time) k2
203 Change (Real-time) c6
204 Holdings Value (Real-time) v7
205 Day's Value Change (Real-time) w4
206 Holdings Gain Pct (Real-time) g5
207 Holdings Gain (Real-time) g6
208 Day's Range (Real-time) m2
209 Market Cap (Real-time) j3
210 P/E (Real-time) r2
211 After Hours Change (Real-time) c8
212 Order Book (Real-time) i5
213 Stock Exchange x
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216 How can one figure out the format string?
217 Provided a My Yahoo! (http://my.yahoo.com) account, go to the following
218 URL:
219 http://edit.my.yahoo.com/config/edit_pfview?.vk=v1
221 Viewing the source of this page, you will come across the section that
223 defines the menus that let you select which elements go into a
224 particular view. The <option> values are the strings that pick up the
225 information described in the menu item. For example, Symbol refers to
226 the string "s" and name refers to the string "l". Using "sl" as the
227 format string, we would get the symbol followed by the name of the
228 security.
229 The example script examine_server.sh shows this in some more detail and
231 downloads example .csv files using GNU wget.
232 What about different stock symbols for the same corporation?
234 This can be issue. For the first few years, Yahoo! Finance's servers
235 appeared to be cover their respective local markets. E.g., the UK-based
236 servers provided quotes for Europe, the Australian one for the
237 Australia and New Zealand and so on. Hence, one needed to branch and
238 bound code and map symbols to their region's servers.
239 It now appears that this is no longer required, which is good news as
241 it simplifies coding. However, some old symbols are no longer supported
242 -- yet other, and supported, codes exist for the same company. For
243 example, German stocks used to quoted in terms or their cusip-like
244 'WKN'. The main server does not support these, but does support newer,
245 acronym-based symbols. The example script examine_server.sh helps in
246 finding the mapping as e.g. from 555750.F to DTEGN.F for Deutsche
247 Telekom.
248
250 Copyright 1998 - 2002 Dj Padzensky Copyright 2002 - 2007 Dirk
251 Eddelbuettel
252 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
254 under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
255 Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
256 option) any later version.
257 The information that you obtain with this library may be copyrighted by
259 Yahoo! Inc., and is governed by their usage license. See
260 http://www.yahoo.com/docs/info/gen_disclaimer.html for more
261 information.
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264 Dj Padzensky ("djpadz@padz.net"), PadzNet, Inc., wrote the original
265 version. Dirk Eddelbuettel ("edd@debian.org") provided several
266 extensions based on DJ's original work and is the current maintainer.
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269 The Finance::YahooQuote home pages are found at
270 http://www.padz.net/~djpadz/YahooQuote/ and
271 http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/yahooquote.html.
272 The smtm (Show Me The Money) program uses Finance::YahooQuote for a
274 customisable stock/portfolio ticker and chart display, see
275 http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/smtm.html for more. The beancounter
276 program uses it to store quotes in a SQL database, see
277 http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/beancounter.html.
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