How to add stock chart and quote from Yahoo

Posted on March 13, 2011 greenhawk

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In this article, I will tell you how to display stock chart on your homepage, and how to access stock quotes with a 20 minute delay from the Yahoo finance service.

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It’s easy to get stock charts from Yahoo finance and display on your web. For example, this is the last three months of IBM stock:

<img src="http://blog.hao909.com/wp-content/uploads/as_image/2011/03/194318dpk.jpg" />

The URL also starts with a base URL and then adds a stock symbo after that.

Small chart:

1 day: http://ichart.yahoo.com/t?s=IBM
5 days: http://ichart.yahoo.com/v?s=IBM
1 year: http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/c/bb/m/ibm

Big chart:

1 day: http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/b?s=IBM
5 days: http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/w?s=IBM
3 months: http://chart.finance.yahoo.com/c/3m/ibm
6 months: http://chart.finance.yahoo.com/c/6m/ibm
1 year: http://chart.finance.yahoo.com/c/1y/ibm
2 years: http://chart.finance.yahoo.com/c/2y/ibm
5 years: http://chart.finance.yahoo.com/c/5y/ibm
max: http://chart.finance.yahoo.com/c/my/ibm

Stock Quote

It is easy to download stock data from Yahoo. For example, copy and paste URL below into your browser address:

http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=YHOO+GOOG+MSFT&f=sl1d1t1c1hgvbap2

Depends on you Internet browser setting, you maybe asked to save the results into a filename call “quotes.csv” or the follow page will appear in your browser.

"YHOO",14.8188,"6/22/2009","1:20pm",-0.9812,15.61,14.80,13944065,14.81,14.82,"-6.21%"
"GOOG",402.25,"6/22/2009","1:20pm",-17.84,417.49,402.11,2399141,402.14,402.27,"-4.25%"
"MSFT",23.359,"6/22/2009","1:20pm",-0.711,23.95,23.32,36595084,23.35,23.36,"-2.95%"

The URL starts with a base URL and then adds parameters and values after a question mark (?).

http://quote.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv? – The default URL to get the information
’s=’ – Append a bunch of stock symbols separated by “+” after this
& – to join the string
‘f=’ – Append a bunch of special tags after this with no spaces in between

The following are special tags provided by Yahoo finance:

a	Ask	a2	Average Daily Volume	a5	Ask Size
b	Bid	b2	Ask (Real-time)	b3	Bid (Real-time)
b4	Book Value	b6	Bid Size	c	Change & Percent Change
c1	Change	c3	Commission	c6	Change (Real-time)
c8	After Hours Change (Real-time)	d	Dividend/Share	d1	Last Trade Date
d2	Trade Date	e	Earnings/Share	e1	Error Indication (returned for symbol changed / invalid)
e7	EPS Estimate Current Year	e8	EPS Estimate Next Year	e9	EPS Estimate Next Quarter
f6	Float Shares	g	Day’s Low	h	Day’s High
j	52-week Low	k	52-week High	g1	Holdings Gain Percent
g3	Annualized Gain	g4	Holdings Gain	g5	Holdings Gain Percent (Real-time)
g6	Holdings Gain (Real-time)	i	More Info	i5	Order Book (Real-time)
j1	Market Capitalization	j3	Market Cap (Real-time)	j4	EBITDA
j5	Change From 52-week Low	j6	Percent Change From 52-week Low	k1	Last Trade (Real-time) With Time
k2	Change Percent (Real-time)	k3	Last Trade Size	k4	Change From 52-week High
k5	Percebt Change From 52-week High	l	Last Trade (With Time)	l1	Last Trade (Price Only)
l2	High Limit	l3	Low Limit	m	Day’s Range
m2	Day’s Range (Real-time)	m3	50-day Moving Average	m4	200-day Moving Average
m5	Change From 200-day Moving Average	m6	Percent Change From 200-day Moving Average	m7	Change From 50-day Moving Average
m8	Percent Change From 50-day Moving Average	n	Name	n4	Notes
o	Open	p	Previous Close	p1	Price Paid
p2	Change in Percent	p5	Price/Sales	p6	Price/Book
q	Ex-Dividend Date	r	P/E Ratio	r1	Dividend Pay Date
r2	P/E Ratio (Real-time)	r5	PEG Ratio	r6	Price/EPS Estimate Current Year
r7	Price/EPS Estimate Next Year	s	Symbol	s1	Shares Owned
s7	Short Ratio	t1	Last Trade Time	t6	Trade Links
t7	Ticker Trend	t8	1 yr Target Price	v	Volume/td>
v1	Holdings Value	v7	Holdings Value (Real-time)/td>	w	52-week Range
w1	Day’s Value Change	w4	Day’s Value Change (Real-time)	x	Stock Exchange
y	Dividend Yield

Let’s say that you want to have the following quotes: YHOO, GOOG, GE, MSFT. You want to get the Name, Last Price, Last Traded Volume, 52-Week High. From the table above, you can find out that the special tags needed are as follow:

Name – n
Last Price- l1
Last Traded Volume – v
52-Week High – k
52-Week Low – j

All you need to do is to construct the URL with the given special tags above. The URL will looks like this:

http://quote.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=YHOO+GOOG+GE+MSFT&f=nl1vkj

Reference:

http://www.igotmessage.com/StockQuote.aspx

http://cliffngan.net/a/13

http://www.gummy-stuff.org/Yahoo-data.htm

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