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Getting Stock Data

 
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Getting Stock Data
tree6014
post 9 Oct, 2008 - 01:33 PM
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Hey, I am working on making a program that needs to be able to read in stock market data via the internet. I found that yahoo allows people to query their stock market data simply by requesting a URL such as http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=XO...&f=snd1l1yr A more detailed explanation of how it works is available at http://www.gummy-stuff.org/Yahoo-data.htm What this does is return a file with the raw data. I need to know how I can get my program to read the data directly from the internet into memory(variables). Any help is appreciated.

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post 10 Oct, 2008 - 12:34 PM
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What have you tried so far?

I would use a nice memory stream.. but that's me.
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post 10 Oct, 2008 - 01:10 PM
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I tried a file stream; but, apparently you can't do that with a URL. I am also new to C# so I'm not yet familiar with all of its features. I've done most of my coding in C/C++ in the past. I'll look up memory streams and see if that works I suppose.
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post 10 Oct, 2008 - 02:50 PM
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Alright, I got it to work by doing the following.

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string data = String.Empty;
WebClient wc = new WebClient();
data = wc.DownloadString("URL");


Thanks for the advice.

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