for all you maraket savy edbrowse users

[Gaijin]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 02:57:12PM -0500, Christopher Moore wrote:
> My question is how this could be expanded to look up a predefined list 
> of stocks.  

for stock in `cat stocklist.txt` ; do
lynx -dump "http://www.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=~0&d=t$stock" > \
		wherever-the-data-is-to-go.output
done

	The trick is getting the URL properly formatted, but I don't
think edbrowse is set up to display to stdout.  "lynx -dump" might be
the better tool, or wget.  I was trying something similar that would run
through yahoo.finance and download and extract stock prices, planning to
have the data entered into postgresql.  Wrong site, actually for that,
visiting 30,000 pages each night in the NASDAQ alone.  I don't think
edbrowse is the right tool for the job.  Using lynx to grab the page and
then filtering out the contents with grep and sed is probably what
you're looking for, or one of the Merril Lynch companies out there that
will give you a better display, much like a Wall Street Journal page of
stock prices.  lynx *should* be able to download the web page, java or
not, and redirect the output to a file or stream for further processing 
though. 

			Michael