Re: [amibroker] downloading information, AmiBroker Email List Archive

Hi Anthony,

I created a DLL that does this, but as mentioned at the time, it was done with VS2005.NET, which means it is truly beta stuff. However I did post the source, see attached email, so if someone wants, the can use that as template to create a dll or script that all can use.

This can be improved upon greatly to "scrape" data from any site by using a config file to define how to scrape the data and how to retrieve it.

I was thinking about modifying to include a config file much like this:

URL = "" href="">http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=

DataItem = Float, (<\\s*td[^>]*>Float:.*?\\s*>.*?>)([\\d|\\.].*?[^a-zA-Z])([a-zA-Z]*)<"

DataItem = OutShares, (<\\s*td[^>]*>Shares Outstanding:.*?\\s*>.*?>)([\\d|\\.].*?[^a-zA-Z])([a-zA-Z]*)<"

This would tell me how to find and retrieve the float and outstanding shares from the URL specified and I could then access it by called Fundamentals.getData ("Float"). This code could also be converted to Jscript or VBScript I think.

I haven’t done any further work on this as I am currently in the process of setting up AB for use with eSignal (moving from DTN)…and I believe they provide fundamental data in their feeds.

-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Faragasso [mailto:ajf1111@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 9:13 PM
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [amibroker] downloading information

See the attached image...it could be any ticker....I would like to download

some of this data enclosed by the red lines...this is yahoo

finance....anyone know how to do it...or has anyone created a utility to do

it....

Can URLget do it....if so ...How ?

Thank you

Anthony

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