Command Line to Get the Stock Quote via Yahoo

curl -s 'http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=csco&f=l1'

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.

Sample Output

19.58

By: haivu

2009-05-04 08:13:59

curl finance

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

felix001 · 735 weeks and 5 days ago

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

haivu · 735 weeks and 4 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!)

hank · 735 weeks and 4 days ago

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

unixmonkey3715 · 734 weeks and 3 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?

kjowens · 707 weeks and 3 days ago

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

haivu · 707 weeks and 2 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

kjowens · 706 weeks and 2 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.

rouninsamurai · 679 weeks and 4 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

rouninsamurai · 679 weeks and 4 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')

travisbgreen · 536 weeks and 1 day ago

As a do-it-yourselfer without much perl knowhow, others like me might benefit from the trial and error I waded throuugh to get rouninsaurai's perl script to work. I balanced the bracket and apostrophes at system("curl -s ' with ' ") at the endof the line and inserted the variable $stocker (without spaces) in place of the stock ticker in the bash script. Probably obvious to most, but might help some.

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