Building a Yahoo stock quote ticker: ASP Alliance

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Building a Yahoo stock quote ticker

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Yahoo Stock Quote Ticker Overview

The Yahoo Quote Ticker consists of an ASP.Net web service that connects to Yahoo quotes and grabs detailed data on stocks. The application also features a Flash-based user interface that scrolls through each stock using the Flash Ticker component.

This application follows n-tier application design by dividing the application into data, business, and presentation logic. This way a designer can focus on building usable interfaces and leave the structure of the backend to the developers.

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Title: index quotes again
Name: kdasgupta
Date: 12/6/2008 6:13:17 PM
Comment:
Looks like Yahoo Quote stopped handling URL decoding of special characters. So, when I enter ^DJI for DOW, it is encoded as "%5EDJI". At Yahoo end, the special characters are not decoded to its corresponding character value, hence Yahoo quote service does not find any price data for the encoded symbol. "INDU" in place of ^DJI works fine.
Can anybode suggest fix for this problem? Thanks.

Title: index quotes again
Name: Li
Date: 10/30/2008 7:52:35 PM
Comment:
I have the same problem getting S&P and Nasdaq. When I put in ^GSPC and ^IXIC, they are not working. But, if I put in "INDU", it works for Dow. Can anybody help?

thanks!

Title: Index quotes
Name: Greg K.
Date: 10/13/2008 9:17:20 AM
Comment:
To get an index quote, use ^ instead of $.

Dow - ^DJI
S&P - ^GSPC
ND - ^IXIC

full list on finance.yahoo.com.

Good luck!

Title: WSDL file for web service
Name: Edi Hansen
Date: 7/21/2008 12:45:11 PM
Comment:
Hi,
Is there a WSDL file for this web service? I'm trying to query web service via SSIS web services task..
thanks!

Title: Index values : $SPX, $COMPQ
Name: Liya Tansky
Date: 7/9/2008 8:33:13 PM
Comment:
Hi, I'm trying to get values of indexes like $SPX and $COMPQ,
Your example works great for stocks, but returns empty data for $SPX. What should I change in the url in order to get to its values?

Thanks in advance

Title: Web service
Name: Ces M
Date: 6/26/2008 9:59:57 AM
Comment:
The web service seems to work fine. It pulls data from Yahoo. My question is do I still need a flash remote package which is almost $1000? Or can we just use simple actionscript to get xml file from the web service?

Title: No longer works
Name: Ben Poole
Date: 5/22/2008 10:59:23 AM
Comment:
it appears that Yahoo! has moved this web service, or changed the link. The pages I have used this code on are now broken, and I can't browse directly to the web service anymore.

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