From the Yahoo main finance page (http://finance.yahoo.com/?u) enter a stock symbol say MSFT for Microsoft. Next click on the download data link. That action will result in the following URL being displayed in the address of your browser:

http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=MSFT&f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv

If you experiment with this and other web sites you will see the constant and variable portion of a URL.




>Hi Tom,
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>lcURL = "http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv"
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>Can you tell me how you "knew" to grab stock data from the above URL at yahoo?
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>I am able to see that its a known feature (by doing a yahoo search), but I couldn't find a mention of this feature anywhere at yahoo itself. By chance do you have a link to yahoo itself that explains this quotes.csv?
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>Thanks...
>
>Mel Cummings