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This is in response to those who were
interested in the app I wrote to download tickers with company names from Yahoo
Finance. It loads over 7000 tickers in just
a few minutes over a broadband connection.
The file can be
found in YahooTickerDownload.Zip in the Files
section.
Written in VB.NET, it essentially scrapes the
Yahoo web site, loading each html page and parsing it looking for ticker
data. It also grabs the industry and sector info. It can also be
used as an example of how to take advantage
of the robust AB Object Model. I
would start with a blank database, and have AB running with the blank db set to
be the default. Then just launch the app and click Get Tickers. Once
the tickers have been loaded you can simply run AmiQuote and the data will be
fetched. You'll probably want to run that overnight. It takes a long
time to get data for 7000 symbols.
It does not maintain
the list by adding, changing or deleting. I just used it to populate a new
database to get started.
I'm submitting this into the wild, so the
usual freeware disclaimers apply. I
don't have plans to update it beyond this point.
Enjoy,
Brian
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