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goalieman34

Hey everyone,
I have been fighting with this problem for a few months now and still can not find an option that I am able to get to work properly.
Does anyone know of a way to display a companies stock price? I have found a few but cant get them to work as I need it to use javascript not php
Thanks ,
Chris

TheDoc

http://skinn3r.wordpress.com/2010/06/16/jstockticker-v1-1-1/

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5150040/stock-quotes-with-javascript

http://developer.yahoo.com/finance/

goalieman34

Ok so I am trying to get the http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5150040/stock-quotes-with-javascript example to work. Are you able to get it working for me in a jsfiddle?

<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.5.1.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function() {
            var symbol='goog';
            var callback = function(data) {
                    var price=data.query.results.span[0].content;
                    alert('Stock Price: ' + price);
                };

            var url = 'http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql';
            // this is the lovely YQL query (html encoded) which lets us get the stock price:
            // select * from html where url="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=goog&quot; and xpath='//span[@id="yfs_l10_goog"]'
            var data = "q=select%20*%20from%20html%20where%20url%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Ffinance.yahoo.com%2Fq%3Fs%3D" + symbol + "%22%20and%20xpath%3D'%2F%2Fspan%5B%40id%3D%22yfs_l10_" + symbol + "%22%5D'&format=json";
            $.getJSON(url, data, callback);
    });
</script>

TheDoc

http://codepen.io/ggilmore/pen/single-stock-price/12

goalieman34

Thanks for putting it into a codepen for me. I am searching the code and can not find where I can change the stock symbol. I need it to find PRW which is Petrowest Corporation.

TheDoc

Looks like you'll need to use PRW.TO for the symbol: http://codepen.io/ggilmore/pen/single-stock-price/14

I'm guessing because it's on the TSE, so 'TO' for Toronto.

goalieman34

Great! You bet it does need the .TO so thanks for adding that. So close to finally getting this stock ticker up on the site haha

TheDoc

haha I know what you mean! I actually had to dig really deep into the Yahoo Finance stuff to make any sense of their crazy YQL language. It took a lot of trial and error!

goalieman34

haha Well I do really appreciate you spending some time and looking into it for me. Thanks again!

goalieman34

@TheDoc well the stock ticker works awesome! only one little problem... haha not working on Internet Explorer. Any idea on how to fix this or should I look at buying one. http://petrowest.squarespace.com/home/

TheDoc

Hmmmm... very odd. I'll try to have a look soon.

goalieman34

ok that would be awesome! Thank you

TheDoc

I'm not sure if I'll be able to properly debug it soon. For something like this, I like posting a question up on Stackoverflow.

goalieman34

Ok sounds good Ill try and post it on Stackoverflow and see if I get a response.

goalieman34

Can anyone see a way to get rid of the "Ads by Google, Stock Quotes, Shares Stock" on my stock ticker? I did have it gone for a minute and then things showed up again.

.gadget img { display:none !important;}
.gadget .powered { display:none !important;}
#abg { display:none !important;}
.al .alt, .al a {display:none !important;}

http://petrowest.squarespace.com/home/

TheDoc

It's an iframe within an iframe, there's no way you're getting rid of it.

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