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Re: [amibroker] Re: Extracting symbol name from Yahoo, how?



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Brian,
 
I wouldn't mind taking a stab at it.....this might be a way to update the US-Stock template that is offered and out of date by Amibroker...
 
Thank you
Anthony
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 3:08 PM
Subject: RE: [amibroker] Re: Extracting symbol name from Yahoo, how?

I was bugged by the fact that the current tickers and their names were hard to get from Yahoo as well.
 
If you are a VB.NET programmer, I wrote something awhile back that pulls all of the Yahoo tickers (including the company names, sectors and industries) into AB.  It does not work flawlessly (some of them end up in the wrong sector), but a coder with an interest could debug it pretty easily I'm sure. 
 
I don't have a use for it anymore, but would be happy to send you the source code if you want.  I built it with VB.NET 2003.  It sucks down the entire list (6000+, I think) in about five minutes.
 
Brian


From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Barry Scarborough
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 11:37 AM
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [amibroker] Re: Extracting symbol name from Yahoo, how?

Hi Perry,

Thanks for the reply. Actually I am trying to do just the opposite.
I have a bunch of symbols in my AB database that have no names. I am
looking for a way to get the full names using the symbols off the
Yahoo site. There are so many that it would not be practical to do
this manually. so, I want to do this with a program.

Cheers,
Barry

--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Perry Lentine" <lentino@xxxx>
wrote:
>
> Barry,
>
> Not sure what you are attempting to do.  But I have the full name
from yahoo
> in my database.  I can extract it with the following:
>
> Filter=1;
> AddTextColumn(FullName(),"FullName         ", 25);
> AddTextColumn(Name(),"Ticker",1.0);
> SetOption("NoDefaultColumns",1);
>
> Set range to last 1 day and explore.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Perry Lentine
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf
> Of Barry Scarborough
> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 8:14 AM
> To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [amibroker] Extracting symbol name from Yahoo, how?
>
> Given a symbol list is there a way to extract the full name from
Yahoo using
> a script or Excel function?
>
> I would also like to get other information so I can fill out the
information
> window but full name would do.
>
> Thanks,
> Barry
>
>
>
>
>
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