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Re: Stock Quotes using AppleScript

Subject: Re: Stock Quotes using AppleScript
From: Oakley Masten <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:40:12 -0700 (PDT)

Simon Topliss <email@hidden> wrote

Oakley,

This should get you started It returns the stock quotes for Apple and
Microsoft…

set r to paragraphs of (do shell script "curl " & quoted form of "http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=AAPL,MSFT&f=snl1d1t1cmv
")

For more info on the parameters see…

http://www.gummy-stuff.org/Yahoo-data.htm

HTH,

Simon

Thanks Simon this appears to work well and I can use it to do what I needed to do.

[Well, it looks like I need to get better acquainted with shell scripting]

Oakley

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