NAME

       Finance::QuoteHist::Google - Site-specific class for retrieving historical stock quotes.

SYNOPSIS

         use Finance::QuoteHist::Google;
         $q = Finance::QuoteHist::Google->new
            (
             symbols    => [qw(IBM UPS AMZN)],
             start_date => '01/01/1999',
             end_date   => 'today',
            );

         foreach $row ($q->quotes()) {
           ($symbol, $date, $open, $high, $low, $close, $volume) = @$row;
           ...
         }

DESCRIPTION

       Finance::QuoteHist::Google is a subclass of Finance::QuoteHist::Generic, specifically
       tailored to read historical quotes from the Google web site (http://finance.google.com/).

       Google does not currently provide information on dividends or splits.

       Please see Finance::QuoteHist::Generic(3) for more details on usage and available methods.
       If you just want to get historical quotes and are not interested in the details of how it
       is done, check out Finance::QuoteHist(3).

METHODS

       The basic user interface consists of a single method, as shown in the example above. That
       method is:

       quotes()
           Returns a list of rows (or a reference to an array containing those rows, if in scalar
           context). Each row contains the Symbol, Date, Open, High, Low, Close, and Volume for
           that date. Quote values are pre-adjusted for this site.

REQUIRES

       Finance::QuoteHist::Generic

DISCLAIMER

       The data returned from these modules is in no way guaranteed, nor are the developers
       responsible in any way for how this data (or lack thereof) is used. The interface is based
       on URLs and page layouts that might change at any time. Even though these modules are
       designed to be adaptive under these circumstances, they will at some point probably be
       unable to retrieve data unless fixed or provided with new parameters.  Furthermore, the
       data from these web sites is usually not even guaranteed by the web sites themselves, and
       oftentimes is acquired elsewhere.

       Details for Googles's terms of use can be found here:

         http://www.google.com/accounts/TOS?loc=us

       If you still have concerns, then use another site-specific historical quote instance, or
       none at all.

       Above all, play nice.

AUTHOR

       Matthew P. Sisk, <sisk@mojotoad.com>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2007-2010 Matthew P. Sisk. All rights reserved. All wrongs revenged. This
       program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as
       Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

       Finance::QuoteHist::Generic(3), Finance::QuoteHist(3), perl(1).