RSS locations

[Jorn]

Hi,

I found the following, taht contains a variety of RSS themes, if you need any have a look at ;

http://www.beginnersphp.co.uk/moreover1.php

BTW do any of you have a really good stock market RSS/XML (with nasdaq qoutes or the like ? I still haven tfound a really usable one.

Best regards Jorn

[fishboy]

The only one found so far that I know of is:

http://www.xanadb.com/nav.pl?page=etc/templates/quotes.xtpl&cont_type=text/xml&symbols=

where "symbols=" is followed by the list of stock symbols to use.  For example:

http://www.xanadb.com/nav.pl?page=etc/templates/quotes.xtpl&cont_type=text/xml&symbols=aivsx+cstgx+avlfx+temwx

[rebecker]

I'm a beginner at this, so bear with me. I tried adding the stock market RSS as follows:

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rss,5,60,http://www.xanadb.com/nav.pl?page=etc/templates/quotes.xtpl&cont_type=text/xml&symbols=hpq,Stocks,0

I substituted this command in place of another. My screen now shows the header "Stocks", but it still contains the previous RSS information. What am I doing wrong? I've change others without a problem, but I can't figure this one out.

Thanks.

-Bob-

[JS]

I'm a beginner at this, so bear with me. I tried adding the stock market RSS as follows:

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rss,5,60,http://www.xanadb.com/nav.pl?page=etc/templates/quotes.xtpl&cont_type=text/xml&symbols=hpq,Stocks,0

I substituted this command in place of another. My screen now shows the header "Stocks", but it still contains the previous RSS information. What am I doing wrong? I've change others without a problem, but I can't figure this one out.

Thanks.

-Bob-

Hi -

Did you delete the files in your buffer folder after making the change and then update again?  Either that or wait until the next update (1 hr. usually) and then the new information should be there.

See if that works.

[rebecker]

Nevermind. I wasn't patient enough to wait for the update.

[walterh]

There is a friendlier (ie shorter) url for the rss stock ticker
http://www.xanadb.com/ticker/aapl+msft+sun+rhat

just replace the symbols above (aapl+msft+sun+rhat) with those you wish to watch. E.g. if you have a portfolio of Tyco, pfizer and spiders, the url would be http://www.xanadb.com/ticker/tyc+pfe+spy.

In addition you can now specify quantities for each stock
If you have 100 microsoft shares and 300 sun shares...
http://www.xanadb.com/ticker/msft:100+sun:300

Walter

[uk_skinner]

Walter:

     

  I was trying to find a good way to track the stock... Thanks.  I will check to see the quote is realtime or delayed.

Edit:  Ok, just saw it, it was from Yahoo, 20 min delayed quote..

[uk_skinner]

Hay, guys I have an idea to do the stock.  Since this RSS link gives us the quote and image link.  What we can do is to combine the radar image trick and this to create a "sepreate section" where you can have both quote and chart image shown.  It will be great if we can get some realtime quote for free in rss format, but I know thiis much too much, right?  There is a free realtime quote in Yahoo, but I don't know how difficult to incorporate that one into rss link.  walterh, is that possible?

[walterh]

The yahoo realtime quotes is only free for the first 2 weeks, after that it's $9.95 a month. There are probably conditions on it's use which prohibit redistribution of quotes via RSS.
Not sure what you mean by 'radar image trick' - can you explain ?

Walter

[uk_skinner]

Walter:

   Yes, you were right about realtime quote in Yahoo.  But this one is free, right?  http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ecn?s=MSFT

   I guess my question is can you "extract" the quote from this link into rss script?  

  What we can do the for radar image is to ustilize a small exe (devloped by Rotlaus) to download the image into device (saved as whatever name we wish, for instance stock1.png) and an image link (image,x,y,stock%var3%,tr) can be used to display within TP.  The upcoming Hammerskin1.05 will include this feature.  The stock chart image is just like radar image, once you get a link, the exe can download it and we can put codes in TP to display the chart.  
  The advanatge is much faster coompare to use UE to open the page.

[walterh]

I don't see a .csv link for the ecn quotes (I download the quotes in .csv format and convert to RSS - this is much quicker/easier than screen-scraping).
Regardless, I don't think RSS is a good delivery mechanism for realtime quotes - it's not what it was designed for (imho). Most well-behaved aggregators, won't poll more frequently than 30 minutes, so the 20-minute yahoo delay isn't really a big deal. If you really want realtime, I'd look at a delivery mechanism other than RSS.

[uk_skinner]

Walter:
    Thanks fo your comment.  I agree with you.  It is much better to go for the paid stream real-time service than free rss feed.

    Let's say just for fun.  It is possible to download the whole html page and try to extract the quote from the whole thing, right?  I know it sounds silly and really too much much rouble just to get a samll number...