Getting real-time market/stock quotes in C#/Java

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David Menard picture David Menard · Dec 29, 2009 · Viewed 87.5k times · Source

I would like to make an program that acts like a big filter for stocks. To do so, I need to have real-time (or delayed) quotes from the market. I started getting stock quotes by requesting pages from yahoo, accordingand parsing the html to the ticker, and parsing the html. I was wondering how to do this requesting and parsing html. Is there some way I can request only the stock quotes and its info? I know some applications do this, and I am very curious how they do it, because requesting web pages and parsing them is very time-consuming.

Thanks, Dave

Answer

stimms picture stimms · Dec 29, 2009

Parsing the output of the webpage is a chump's game. It is always changing and unless you're willing to heavily invest in some sort of very resilient parser you're going to spend your life twiddling with it. Use a web service, google offers one http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/real-time-quotes-for-free.html

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