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Formatting Stock Data from Yahoo Finance

Yesterday I was playing with manipulating information pulled from stocks.  I ended up pulling data from Yahoo Finance, because it is just so easy to do in PHP.  I ran into a problem, how would I pull all the data I needed?

I found very little documentation online, it seems that pulling data from Yahoo Finance is more of a clever manipulation of Yahoo offering CSV downloads of financial data.  Yahoo mentions on discussion boards that it does not support, or help, those who use Yahoo Finance like this.  I don’t believe it is against any agreements. › Continue reading

Tags: CSV, format, Formatting, PHP, Quotes, Stock, Yahoo Finance