yahoo_stock¶ ↑

* github.com/nas/yahoo_stock

Provides an interface to yahoo finance to get stock related data. For instance, latest trade related data, volume, 50 day moving average, market cap, etc, virtually any thing that yahoo finance provides.

If you don’t know the stock / scrip symbol of the company then you can find that out by using the YahooStock::ScripSymbol class. The methods are mentioned in the Usage section below. For instance, YHOO for yahoo, GOOG for google, etc. The kind of parameters to be passed can be found after initializing the YahooStock::Quote object and passing valid_parameters message to the quote object, example is given below in the USAGE section.

For details : nasir.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/ruby-gem-for-finance-data

gem sources -a gemcutter.org

sudo gem install nas-yahoo_stock

require ‘rubygems’ require ‘yahoo_stock’

• Initialize quote object:

quote = YahooStock::Quote.new(:stock_symbols => [‘YHOO’, ‘GOOG’])

• To view the valid parameters that can be passed:

quote.valid_parameters

• To view the current parameters used:

quote.current_parameters

• To view the current stock symbols used:

quote.current_symbols

• To add more stocks to the list:

quote.add_symbols(‘MSFT’, ‘AAPL’)

• To remove stocks from list:

quote.remove_symbols(‘MSFT’, ‘AAPL’)

• To find data for all stocks, this will give a string containing all values:

quote.results.output

• To return an array instead of a string use:

quote.results(:to_array).output

• To return a hash, use:

quote.results(:to_hash).output

• To return xml, use:

quote.results(:to_xml).output

• to store results in a file, use:

quote.results.store(‘filename’)

• To find out the stock symbol for a company:

symbol = YahooStock::ScripSymbol.new(‘Yahoo’)

• To find all symbols for that company, this will give a string containing all values:

symbol.results.output

• Similarly to YahooStock::Quote, results can be converted to an array, a hash, xml, or stored in a file:

symbol.results(:to_array).output symbol.results(:to_hash).output symbol.results(:to_xml).output symbol.results.store(‘filename’)

• To find symbols for multiple companies:

symbols = YahooStock::ScripSymbol.results(‘Yahoo’, ‘Company1’, ‘Company3’)

• To find historical data for a stock:

history = YahooStock::History.new(:stock_symbol => ‘yhoo’, :start_date => Date.today-20, :end_date => Date.today-2)

• As with regular quotes and symbol lookups, the results can be returned in various formats:

history.results.output history.results(:to_array).output history.results(:to_hash).output history.results(:to_xml).output history.results.store(‘filename’)

• History results include 7 values for each day, i.e. date itself, Open, High, Low, Close, Volume and Adj.

• To get comma separated values with line breaks including header use:

  history.values_with_header (writing this to a file will give a CSV)

rdoc.info/projects/nas/yahoo_stock

To run all tests ‘rspec spec’ from the root directory. It requires rspec >= 2.1.0

To run cucumber features “rake cucumber”. It requires cucumber >= 0.9.4

Cucumber Test html output is logged in log/features.html

• Thanks to Ryan Sandridge for adding the dividend query option.

• Thanks to {Justin Campbell} [github.com/JustinCampbell] for refactoring CSV parsing.

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