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Command Line to Get the Stock Quote via Yahoo

Terminal - Command Line to Get the Stock Quote via Yahoo
curl -s 'http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=csco&f=l1'
2009-05-04 08:13:59
User: haivu
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Command Line to Get the Stock Quote via Yahoo

Retrieve the current stock price from Yahoo Finance. The output is simply the latest price (which could be delayed). If you want to look up stock for a different company, replace csco with your symbol.

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how do you change it to find the stock price of companys on the London Stock Exchange.

Comment by felix001 210 weeks and 6 days ago

@felix001: I don't know. I googled for a while, but could not find anything useful.

Comment by haivu 210 weeks and 5 days ago
curl -s 'http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=JPR.L&f=l1'

Just append a ".L" to the stock symbol. Price is given in quid. (And I'm American!)

Comment by hank 210 weeks and 4 days ago

Great! This is what I need! Thanks a lot!

Comment by unixmonkey3715 209 weeks and 4 days ago

how can i ad the time and date to the stock quote? I want output that looks like:

20091117 10:59 - price stock

and then append that to a file? I already use a command that makes the timestamp with whatever i type after it:

echo `date +'%Y%m%d %H:%M - '` SOMETHING >> ~/pt/notes.txt"

appends SOMETHING to a file. I just want SOMETHING to be the stock price. Any ideas about how i could do that?

Comment by kjowens 182 weeks and 4 days ago

@kjowens: I don't know how. Sorry I can't help you there.

Comment by haivu 182 weeks and 3 days ago

I solved my problem w/ a script like this:

#!/bin/sh

ffflx=$(curl -s 'http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=ffflx&f=l1787')

td=`date +'%Y%m%d %H:%M - '`

echo $td $ffflx > /Users/.../pt/stock-record.txt

which appends this to the file:

20091125 16:46 - 8.35,"FFFLX","FFFLX","FFFLX"

where

ffflx = stock ticker name

td = is the date formatted how i want it

Comment by kjowens 181 weeks and 3 days ago

Use perl from the command line, since most have perl installed on their machine this is a easier alternative instead of running bash. Plus easier to manipulate. Just add your stock ticker to the array.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

@STOCKS = ('GOOG','AAPL','MSFT','CSCO','FORD');

foreach $stocker (@STOCKS){

system("curl -s '

}

After the &f= you can limit it to like above which is just to use l1.

If you want to just run from the command line chmod +x nameoffile, then ./nameoffile. If you want to run it from anywhere move the file to the /usr/local/sbin directory and chmod +x filename and chown user:user then from the command line just type in nameoffile. Make sure to make the filename different from system files. Also add it to your crontab job. So you can see the stocks every minute.

Hope this will help everyone who have tried coming up with a simple command line option to what was written above.

Comment by rouninsamurai 154 weeks and 5 days ago

For UK it appears they used the same parameters but pulls from different url.

http://uk.old.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=BP.L&f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv http://uk.old.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=RR.L&f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv
Comment by rouninsamurai 154 weeks and 5 days ago

@kjowens, I used this:

echo $(date +'%Y%m%d %H:%M') $(curl -s 'http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=spy&f=l1')
Comment by travisbgreen 11 weeks and 2 days ago

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