Provided by: libfinance-yahooquote-perl_0.24_all bug

NAME

       Finance::YahooQuote - Get stock quotes from Yahoo! Finance

SYNOPSIS

         use Finance::YahooQuote;
         # setting TIMEOUT and PROXY is optional
         $Finance::YahooQuote::TIMEOUT = 60;
         $Finance::YahooQuote::PROXY = "http://some.where.net:8080";
         @quote = getonequote $symbol; # Get a quote for a single symbol
         @quotes = getquote @symbols;  # Get quotes for a bunch of symbols
         useExtendedQueryFormat();     # switch to extended query format
         useRealtimeQueryFormat();     # switch to real-time query format
         @quotes = getquote @symbols;  # Get quotes for a bunch of symbols
         @quotes = getcustomquote(["DELL","IBM"], # using custom format
                                  ["Name","Book Value"]); # note array refs

DESCRIPTION

       This module gets stock quotes from Yahoo! Finance.  The getonequote function will return a
       quote for a single stock symbol, while the getquote function will return a quote for each
       of the stock symbols passed to it.  getcustomquote allows to specify a format other than
       the default to take advantage of the extended range of available information.

       The download operation is efficient: only one request is made even if several symbols are
       requested at once. The return value of getonequote is an array, with the following
       elements:

           0 Symbol
           1 Company Name
           2 Last Price
           3 Last Trade Date
           4 Last Trade Time
           5 Change
           6 Percent Change
           7 Volume
           8 Average Daily Vol
           9 Bid
           10 Ask
           11 Previous Close
           12 Today's Open
           13 Day's Range
           14 52-Week Range
           15 Earnings per Share
           16 P/E Ratio
           17 Dividend Pay Date
           18 Dividend per Share
           19 Dividend Yield
           20 Market Capitalization
           21 Stock Exchange

       If the extended format has been selected, the following fields are also retrieved:

           22 Short ratio
           23 1yr Target Price
           24 EPS Est. Current Yr
           25 EPS Est. Next Year
           26 EPS Est. Next Quarter
           27 Price/EPS Est. Current Yr
           28 Price/EPS Est. Next Yr
           29 PEG Ratio
           30 Book Value
           31 Price/Book
           32 Price/Sales
           33 EBITDA
           34 50-day Moving Avg
           35 200-day Moving Avg

       If the real-time format has been selected, the following fields are also retrieved:

           36 Ask (real-time)
           37 Bid (real-time)
           38 Change in Percent (real-time)
           39 Last trade with time (real-time)
           40 Change (real-time)
           41 Day range (real-time)
           42 Market-cap (real-time)

       The getquote function returns an array of pointers to arrays with the above structure.

       The getonequote function returns just one quote, rather than an array. It returns a simple
       array of values for the given symbol.

       The setQueryString permits to supply a new query string that will be used for subsequent
       data requests.

       The useExtendedQueryFormat and useRealtimeQueryFormat are simpler interfaces which append
       symbols to the default quote string, as detailed above.

       The getcustomquote returns an array of quotes corresponding to values for the symbols
       supplied in the first array reference, and the custom fields supplied in the second array
       reference. Here the custom fields correspond to the 'named' fields of the list below.

       Beyond stock quotes, Finance::YahooQuote can also obtain quotes for currencies (from the
       Philadephia exchange -- however Yahoo! appears to have stopped to support the currency
       symbols in a reliable manner), US mutual funds, options on US stocks, several precious
       metals and quite possibly more; see the Yahoo! Finance website for full information.
       Finance::YahooQuote can be used for stocks from the USA, Canada, various European
       exchanges, various Asian exchanges (Singapore, Taiwan, HongKong, Kuala Lumpur, ...)
       Australia and New Zealand. It should work for other markets supported by Yahoo.

       You may optionally override the default LWP timeout of 180 seconds by setting
       $Finance::YahooQuote::TIMEOUT to your preferred value.

       You may also provide a proxy (for the required http connection) by using the variable
       $Finance::YahooQuote::PROXY. Furthermore, authentication-based proxies can be used by
       setting the proxy user and password via the variables $Finance::YahooQuote::PROXYUSER and
       $Finance::YahooQuote::PROXYPASSWD.

       Two example scripts are provided to help with the mapping a stock symbols as well as with
       Yahoo! Finance server codes. The regression tests scripts in the t/ subdirectory of the
       source distribution also contain simple examples.

   The available custom fields
       The following list contains all the available data fields at Yahoo!  along with the
       corresponding format string entry:

             Symbol                            s
             Name                              n
             Last Trade (With Time)            l
             Last Trade (Price Only)           l1
             Last Trade Date                   d1
             Last Trade Time                   t1
             Last Trade Size                   k3
             Change and Percent Change         c
             Change                            c1
             Change in Percent                 p2
             Ticker Trend                      t7
             Volume                            v
             Average Daily Volume              a2
             More Info                         i
             Trade Links                       t6
             Bid                               b
             Bid Size                          b6
             Ask                               a
             Ask Size                          a5
             Previous Close                    p
             Open                              o
             Day's Range                       m
             52-week Range                     w
             Change From 52-wk Low             j5
             Pct Chg From 52-wk Low            j6
             Change From 52-wk High            k4
             Pct Chg From 52-wk High           k5
             Earnings/Share                    e
             P/E Ratio                         r
             Short Ratio                       s7
             Dividend Pay Date                 r1
             Ex-Dividend Date                  q
             Dividend/Share                    d
             Dividend Yield                    y
             Float Shares                      f6
             Market Capitalization             j1
             1yr Target Price                  t8
             EPS Est. Current Yr               e7
             EPS Est. Next Year                e8
             EPS Est. Next Quarter             e9
             Price/EPS Est. Current Yr         r6
             Price/EPS Est. Next Yr            r7
             PEG Ratio                         r5
             Book Value                        b4
             Price/Book                        p6
             Price/Sales                       p5
             EBITDA                            j4
             50-day Moving Avg                 m3
             Change From 50-day Moving Avg     m7
             Pct Chg From 50-day Moving Avg    m8
             200-day Moving Avg                m4
             Change From 200-day Moving Avg    m5
             Pct Chg From 200-day Moving Avg   m6
             Shares Owned                      s1
             Price Paid                        p1
             Commission                        c3
             Holdings Value                    v1
             Day's Value Change                w1,
             Holdings Gain Percent             g1
             Holdings Gain                     g4
             Trade Date                        d2
             Annualized Gain                   g3
             High Limit                        l2
             Low Limit                         l3
             Notes                             n4
             Last Trade (Real-time) with Time  k1
             Bid (Real-time)                   b3
             Ask (Real-time)                   b2
             Change Percent (Real-time)        k2
             Change (Real-time)                c6
             Holdings Value (Real-time)        v7
             Day's Value Change (Real-time)    w4
             Holdings Gain Pct (Real-time)     g5
             Holdings Gain (Real-time)         g6
             Day's Range (Real-time)           m2
             Market Cap (Real-time)            j3
             P/E (Real-time)                   r2
             After Hours Change (Real-time)    c8
             Order Book (Real-time)            i5
             Stock Exchange                    x

FAQs

   How can one figure out the format string?
       Provided a My Yahoo! (http://my.yahoo.com) account, go to the following URL:

           http://edit.my.yahoo.com/config/edit_pfview?.vk=v1

       Viewing the source of this page, you will come across the section that defines the menus
       that let you select which elements go into a particular view.  The <option> values are the
       strings that pick up the information described in the menu item.  For example, Symbol
       refers to the string "s" and name refers to the string "l".  Using "sl" as the format
       string, we would get the symbol followed by the name of the security.

       The example script examine_server.sh shows this in some more detail and downloads example
       .csv files using GNU wget.

   What about different stock symbols for the same corporation?
       This can be issue. For the first few years, Yahoo! Finance's servers appeared to be cover
       their respective local markets. E.g., the UK-based servers provided quotes for Europe, the
       Australian one for the Australia and New Zealand and so on.  Hence, one needed to branch
       and bound code and map symbols to their region's servers.

       It now appears that this is no longer required, which is good news as it simplifies
       coding. However, some old symbols are no longer supported -- yet other, and supported,
       codes exist for the same company.  For example, German stocks used to quoted in terms or
       their cusip-like 'WKN'. The main server does not support these, but does support newer,
       acronym-based symbols.  The example script examine_server.sh helps in finding the mapping
       as e.g. from 555750.F to DTEGN.F for Deutsche Telekom.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 1998 - 2002 Dj Padzensky Copyright 2002 - 2007 Dirk Eddelbuettel

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of
       the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
       version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

       The information that you obtain with this library may be copyrighted by Yahoo! Inc., and
       is governed by their usage license.  See
       http://www.yahoo.com/docs/info/gen_disclaimer.html for more information.

AUTHOR

       Dj Padzensky ("djpadz@padz.net"), PadzNet, Inc., wrote the original version. Dirk
       Eddelbuettel ("edd@debian.org") provided several extensions based on DJ's original work
       and is the current maintainer.

SEE ALSO

       The Finance::YahooQuote home pages are found at http://www.padz.net/~djpadz/YahooQuote/
       and http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/yahooquote.html.

       The smtm (Show Me The Money) program uses Finance::YahooQuote for a customisable
       stock/portfolio ticker and chart display, see http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/smtm.html
       for more.  The beancounter program uses it to store quotes in a SQL database, see
       http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/beancounter.html.