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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Internet applications
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00086423
Message ID:
00086522
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>I am just curious...this means Yahoo is the source of the data..where does Yahoo get their data? Probably a non-Internet source, but I am just curious...
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>Joe
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>>Check out the httpget() function inside the WebConnect shareware version in the libraries here. For example, you can
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>> X= httpGet("http://quote.yahoo.com/quotes?s=MSFT+NOVL&d=v2")
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>>... to get the latest quotes from Yahoo on Microisoft and Novell. This sucks the HTML into variable X, which you can then easily parse. No need for Activex at all...

the httpGet function should work on almost any site that allows users to request quotes.
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