Script for stock quotes and tickers

Have you already tried looking at the major cgi resource sites for this script?
JP

Yes, I did.
The only similar thing was a script about weather @ cgi-resources.com
I'll keep on searching...
Thanks

If you give me a URL to a site that has updated stock quotes, it should be too hard to figure out a script to get those quotes.

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Are you looking specifically Technology stocks?
If you look at http://investor.cnet.com/
Scroll down a little and you will see " Top Tech"

Is that what you are looking for (but you need it on your own site)?

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Here is a site I helped work on a long time ago - but they have the kind of stock ticker I think you are looking for. We got it free from another site. Just copy the script and you can change the look of the table it's in.
http://www.4amegastockpick.com/invest.htm

Brooke

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Thank you Robp and Brooke!

ROBp:
Yes, that's the kind of stuff I'm looking for...NASDAQ, NYSE, and stock quotes search..something like the 1st table in http://finance.yahoo.com/ and - if possible -the following search form. I noticed many sites get those quotes from Yahoo. Thank you again for your interest and your help

Brooke: Thanks, a ticker script like the one in http://www.4amegastockpick.com/invest.htm
would be great..but...how can copy it from that site? And..should I ask a permission for its use?
Thx

OK, I was bored so I messed around with a scirpt that gets the latest stock quotes from
cnetinvestor.com

You will need
LWP::Simple;
module installed for this to work.

When the script is executed, it writes the quotes to a text file. You can than use SSI to call up the text file.

Here is an example page http://dlo.net/~rob/cgi-bin/quotestest.shtml

Here is the Source http://dlo.net/~rob/cgi-bin/quotessource.txt

Hope that helps.

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[This message has been edited by robp (edited 16 January 2000).]

Wow THANKS Rob, that's GREAT
I'm going to test it right now...

Just curious if you got it to work fine?

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this seems like a great script, however I have no luck maiking it work... is there a way to check if there is LWP::Simple;
module installed on my server?

it gave me a couple of 500 server errors... and I have no clue whta am i doing wrong, well my site is hosted with jumpline.com and i am not sure if they have this module installed...

LWP comes with Perl 5 but they may have it disabled for "security" reasons. If they do then you may try using sockets to retrieve the file to be parsed by the script.

hi,

im trying your script, but i get allways error message...

when i start the quotes.cgi ...
it comes with this error
500 internel Server error

by calling quotes.txt from q.shtml
it comes with this error
[an error occurred while processing this directive]

but in the cgi-bin directory it has created the quotes.txt with the quotes...

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Does your host allow SSI?
<!--#include file="/cgi-bin/quotes.txt"-->

that seems to work fine.

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I know I am bringing this topic from death, but I really like this script but have no luck in instaling it,
here is whta i have done,
named it quotes.cgi and placed it in cgi directiory
chmod 755
then created quotes.txt in cgi directory and chmoded it 777
when I call the script on my page http://hostciti.com/quotes.shtml
nothing happens
when I call the script directly it gives me a server error,
any ideas?

well, the script works fine, when I checked the quotes.txt it has all the info required, the problem is with bringing that info to my page, can anyone help?
my webhost supports ssi

I still have the same problem so I was about to giving it up.. i'll try again and let you know, Ok?!

PS: Do you have a working copy of news grabber? Can you tell me more about it? THANKS

To include the quotex.txt with SSI you can just use
<!--#include file="/cgi-bin/quotes.txt-->

You will probably have to rename your .html to .shtml to allow SSI.

But to have the quotes.cgi updates, you can either just visit it every so often to execute it, or make a cron job to execute the file.

To do that, you will need to create a file named
"cront" in /home/you
inside it put something like

10 * * * * /home/yourname/public_html/cgi-bin/quotes.cgi

than login through telnet and type
crontab cront. Now your script should execute every 10 minutes.

Hope that helps a little. (Please correct me anyone if I am wrong on setting up the cron job)

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Thanks RobP, now it works.

I just had to add a script to call the txt file. The shtml page calls the script and display the results. Hope this can help RobertW

#!/usr/bin/perl

$menu_file = "/usr21/home/fin/public_html/cgi-bin/quotes.txt";

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
open(FILE,"$menu_file");
while(<FILE> ) {
print $_;
}
exit;

One more thing: is it possible to avoid the links to cnet detailed pages or modify the same script to pick up data from yahoo sweden or spain?
Thanks

thanks, it works now

by the way I found the newspro at cgi-resources.com
if will have problems finding it let me know I will send you a copy

I meant the news grabber...