Finance News RSS Feed

[George Durzi]

There still isn't an RSS feed out there that can provide news/stock prices
with a ticker symbol as input. There's supposedly a beta from Yahoo, but
it's not working and there is no estimated official release date.

I'm thinking of using screen scraping to get company news for a given ticker
symbol. I would use httpwebrequests, etc.

Has anybody done anything like this?

 

[Dino Chiesa [Microsoft]]

Hey George, I've done several similar "HTML Screen scrapers", but none of
them are RSS newsfeeds for a given ticker.

They all use WebRequests and streamreaders.

Here's source for one such - it is a book price service.
Given an ISBN it screen-scrapes to get prices from Amazon, B&N, and WHSmith
(It was developed before Amazon introduced its Amazon web services)

the screen scraper library
http://www.winisp.net/cheeso/srcview.aspx?dir=books&file=BookLookup.cs

the webservice that uses the library
http://www.winisp.net/cheeso/srcview.aspx?dir=books&file=books.asmx

here's a working client that consumes the service
http://www.winisp.net/cheeso/books/books.aspx?i=0060652942

-DC

 

[Dino Chiesa [Microsoft]]

and here's one that does zipcode lookups from the usps site
http://www.winisp.net/cheeso/srcview.aspx?dir=zips&file=ZipLookup.cs

(much simpler)

 

[George Durzi]

Dino, thank you, those were very helpful

and here's one that does zipcode lookups from the usps site
http://www.winisp.net/cheeso/srcview.aspx?dir=zips&file=ZipLookup.cs

(much simpler)