Hi guys,
The Brits amongst us have horrendous problems downloading prices from
Yahoo, esp. if you want to download OEICS/Unit Trusts. It seems that
Yahoo is constantly fiddling with the layout on the server, meaning
that download scripts require ongoing maintenance.
To that end, I post my latest and greatest version of getquote-uk.py
below. There's only a minor tweak: we now download from
uk.old.finance.yahoo.com instead of uk.finance.yahoo.com. The presence
of the word "old" is a bit disturbing - I can only hope that this
doesn't bode ill for the future.
Enjoy!
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import urllib, string, sys
def download(sym):
url = "http://uk.old.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=";
url += sym + "&f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv"
f = urllib.urlopen(url, proxies={})
info = f.read()
f.close()
fields = string.split(info, ',')
result = float(fields[1])/100
return result
sym = sys.argv[1]
sym = sym.replace('_', '.')
if sym == '£':
print '£1.00'
else:
try: print "£" +str(download(sym))
except: pass
