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I need help with automating downloads - 5/21/2007 12:39:49 PM   
  dj

 

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Status: offline 		The Yahoo Finance site provides free downloads of historical stock market data. I want to automate the download process, but don't know how. Any ideas?

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RE: I need help with automating downloads - 5/21/2007 2:17:01 PM   
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Status: offline 		What is the URL you access for this? How do you do it manually?

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RE: I need help with automating downloads - 5/21/2007 8:01:41 PM   
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Status: offline 		The URL to access stock data for the company Google.com, for example, is < http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=GOOG>. When I download manually, I click the link <Download To Spreadsheet> at the bottom of this page. Then the standard dialog box opens up to ask where to store the data.

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RE: I need help with automating downloads - 5/22/2007 1:36:11 AM   
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Status: offline 		I found this which may work for you.



      

< Message edited by dm_4ever -- 5/22/2007 1:52:12 AM >

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RE: I need help with automating downloads - 5/22/2007 9:21:27 AM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks for your help dm_4ever. This code works great!

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