Witango-Talk: Stock Quotes

2006-11-23 Thread David Mark Weiss
Happy Thanksgiving to all, especially the Canadians on the list! Just for fun, I have thought about putting together a little app that would update my stock portfolio automatically. At first through a page refresh and then eventually using AJAX. Something for me instead of always for others

Re: Witango-Talk: Stock Quotes

2006-11-23 Thread Roland Dumas
I did one once that scraped stock quotes from yahoo. <@URL> and then processed it ... On Nov 23, 2006, at 9:22 AM, David Mark Weiss wrote: Happy Thanksgiving to all, especially the Canadians on the list! Just for fun, I have thought about putting together a little app that would update my

Re: Witango-Talk: Stock Quotes

2006-11-25 Thread Ben Johansen
Ya know a little AJAX and and how water and you could clean anything... ;-) Just kidding It is more like a little AJAX and a lot of JavaScript you can do some amazing things if your needing a push in ajax look at this link http://www.hanburger.net/2006/03/25/first-crack-at-ajax/ I entered "

Re: Witango-Talk: Stock Quotes

2006-11-25 Thread David Mark Weiss
Ben and Roland, Thanks for your help. I was googling realtime stock quotes and not getting what I wanted. So thanks. I have a ton of information now to work through and make happen. This is going to be fun. Mark On Nov 25, 2006, at 1:58 AM, Ben Johansen wrote: Ya know a little AJAX and a

Re: Witango-Talk: Stock Quotes

2006-11-25 Thread Roland Dumas
when last I looked, getting a real time or even a 15 minute delay stock quote is very expensive. Not to the consumer, but to the web server. Very restrictive. I couldn't afford the cost of the feed so put the trusty @URL to work. There are a few places that have clean html that you can trim

Re: Witango-Talk: Stock Quotes

2006-11-25 Thread David Mark Weiss
Roland, I already have an account that allows me real time access. They claim to have a way, for I think $15 more per month to allow access in other ways. Excel access works on windows according to them with a deal you down load from them. Real time to excel. Anyway, if realtime to a web

Re: Witango-Talk: Stock Quotes

2006-11-25 Thread Roland Dumas
likely, you have a consumer account with the strong proscription against redistribution. Read your rules carefully. On Nov 25, 2006, at 3:02 PM, David Mark Weiss wrote: Roland, I already have an account that allows me real time access. They claim to have a way, for I think $15 more per mont