Parsing Google Finance page data?
If you do not need a pure R solution, you might also find it helpful to blend languages. For scraping and munging tasks such as this I generally turn to python to do extraction then feed data to R for analysis via rpy. On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 8:57 PM, Spencer Graves <
spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com> wrote:
The Ecfun package includes functions written to scrape data from web
pages. See, e.g., readUShouse, readUSsenate, readUSstateAbbreviations.
They use getURL{RCurl} and readHTMLTable{XML}.
Hope this helps.
Spencer Graves
On 11/20/2014 5:42 PM, Matt Considine wrote:
Hi, I'm wondering if anyone can point me to code to parse data on Google Finance pages, i.e. parse the results of a URL request such as this http://www.google.com/finance?q=apple I know how to return the contents of the page; it's figuring out the best tools to parse it that I'm interested in and hopefully someone has already done this. (For what it is worth, the only info I am looking for are the ticker, exchange, currency and "Mkt Cap" datapoint) Thanks in advance for any help - scraping is not my strong suit. Matt --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active.
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