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Get Stock Quote from Goolge Web API via Python
Posted by Shawn Zhang
on December 27, 2012
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Background
Google has officially announce that it won't sustain ongoing of Finance API, but there still a available API via URL API . Return data from web server is xml format . We need to parse the return text in Python and extract data .
Get the Stock Data
Google Web API format ( http://www.google.com/ig/api?stock=C ) , this will request market data for security code "C" ( Citigroup :) ) xml return result:
<xml_api_reply version="1">
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Get Security Quote of Chinese Market from Sina.com via Python
Posted by Shawn Zhang
on December 27, 2012
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Intro
Although articles have been written about calling security quote API of Sina.com . I'd like to take a dive into it via Python and try to setup a OO implementation. Sina.com API will offer 5-th market depth prices of Chinese Shanghai / Shenzhen Exchange Stock in real time style .
API structure
calling Sina.com Stock API can be straightforward , just type "http://hq.sinajs.cn/list=sh601012" in browser address . call back will shown as below ( click to enlarge ):
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