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Retrieving stock data from the web
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| Hi All.
I want to download historical stock financial data (EPS, growth, sales revenue etc.) from the web. My intention is to populate a MYSQL database with these values and then perform a series of calculations against the databasefor my personal investing. A sample of the data I want to retrieve is here: http://moneycentral.msn.com/investo....asp?Symbol=IBM
What is the best way to do this? I'm more interested in the approach vs. specific code. I thought about using Finance::Quote but that doesn't appear to be written to retrieve the historical data I am after.
LWP also comes to mind as well.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
--Paul
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| Eric Krause 2007-12-06, 7:02 pm |
| I think WWW::Mechanize works great. Very easy to understand and use.
-Eric
Perl wrote:
> Hi All.
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> I want to download historical stock financial data (EPS, growth, sales revenue etc.) from the web. My intention is to populate a MYSQL database with these values and then perform a series of calculations against the database for my personal investing.
A sample of the data I want to retrieve is here: http://moneycentral.msn.com/investo....asp?Symbol=IBM
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> What is the best way to do this? I'm more interested in the approach vs. specific code. I thought about using Finance::Quote but that doesn't appear to be written to retrieve the historical data I am after.
> LWP also comes to mind as well.
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> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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> --Paul
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