Hpricot fun
May 7th, 2007
rq.rb
%w(rubygems hpricot open-uri).each{|f| require f }
T = %w(goog nyx lmc fwlt nly aapl amzn vg)
scrape = lambda{|t| t.inner_html.gsub(/ |(|)/, '').strip }
doc = Hpricot(open("http://finance.google.com/finance?q=#{T.join('+')}"))
doc.search('table.results tr').each_with_index do |row, i|
next if i == 0 # header
tds = row/'td'
s = scrape[tds[1]/'a']
p = scrape[tds[2]]
dc = scrape[tds[3]/'font']
pc = scrape[tds[4]/'font']
puts sprintf("%5s %10s %8s %8s", s, p, dc, pc)
end
ruby rq.rb
GOOG 471.26 +0.14 0.03%
NYX 83.70 -0.71 -0.84%
LMC 13.11 +0.21 1.63%
FWLT 71.21 +0.70 0.99%
NLY 15.87 +0.12 0.75%
AAPL 103.04 +2.23 2.21%
AMZN 62.25 -0.98 -1.55%
VG 3.09 -0.03 -0.96%
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