A couple of Q's about Google & Ysahoo finace

Sep 11, 2006 2 Replies
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Hi



I use Yahoo to download price information directly to a spreadsheet using it's quotes.csv option:

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" etc.. This is a fantastic service except it doesn't appear to have data for the OFEX list, or am I missing something?


  1. Is there a web site offering a similar system to Yahoo with OFEX?

I've had a quick look at Google Finance.


2.How do I get a quote for uk based stocks?

All I get if I search, for say M&S is a report/synopsis of the previous year.


  1. Does Google offer the same .csv option?

Thanks for your help



Dave F.


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I think the only place you will find OFEX data is on OFEX itself

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Yahoo & Google's data supplier get a feed directly from the London Stock Exchange.

However, OFEX is a completely seperate trading facility, and they don't use the TIDM symbols as far as I am aware, which is the common way to track listed securities.

If you are technically minded, you can crawl Yahoo Finances site and write values for any security to a database.

Rgds Neil.

Dave F. wrote:

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Or if you are not so technically minded, you could set up a web query in Excel to scrape the figure off the page.

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