Automating file downloads from Yahoo Finance

[Chris Holbrook Member Find all posts View Profile Close Chris Holbrook]

My only internet programming trick so far is to grab web pages and extract their content. It has been very useful.

It is about time I learnt another one, even better if it was how to automate the downloading of historical price data from Yahoo Finance. To get this data one has to click a button on the Yahoo web page and receive a file.

Any suggestions please?

[Jean-Pierre LEROY Member Find all posts View Profile Close Jean-Pierre LEROY]

Chris,

Edwin Knoppert wrote a PB function callled Yahoo_ReadTable(); you can get it on his forum at this URL :

http://www.hellobasic.com/cgi-bin/fo...010446;start=2

[Chris Holbrook Member Find all posts View Profile Close Chris Holbrook]

Jean-Pierre,

That is exactly what I needed. Many thanks to you and Edwin.

Chris