Stock Feeds

[joelw135]

Has anyone found a stock feed that gives the quote showing up or down from previous day?

[fishboy]

Of all my searching, I did not find one, so I wrote a PHP script that creates an RSS feed from information at the Yahoo finance web page (inspired by MadTxn and created from sample code I found) and uses my PC as the web server.  I installed PHP Server (which is free) on my PC which is running IIS 4.0 and Windows 2000.  This will also work with Window 95/98 running Personnel Web Server and XP.  It also works with Apache Web Server (free as well).

A TodayPlus rss entry points to this script on my PC, which connects to Yahoo and creates the feed which TodayPlus uses.  Using this setup you can create your own "web scrapers" to create any RSS feed you want (MadTxn created a nice Movie Listing script).  

Of course, you will have to learn the PHP script language, or find someone to create it for you (there are plenty of sample scripts available as well as a manual).  This may be a little to much for some users so I have asked Eitel to consider the possibility of allowing users to post PHP scripts to the TodayPlus site to be accessed by all users.  However, this might require more bandwidth than Eitel can provide.

I know this may not be what you are looking for, but it does provide an alternative solution.

[joelw135]

That would be real cool.  It is hard to look a stock numbers without the previous days value to compare.

[wallacelee]

Hi fishboy,

This is exactly what I am looking for, would you mind sharing your php scripts?

Thanks!

Wallace

[fishboy]

wallacelee,

It has already been posted here: http://www.dark-mojo.com/todayplus/viewtopic.php?p=6136#6136.