#!/usr/bin/perl -w # # Copyright (C) 1998, Dj Padzensky # Copyright (C) 1998, 1999 Linas Vepstas # Copyright (C) 2000, Yannick LE NY # Copyright (C) 2000, Paul Fenwick # Copyright (C) 2000, Brent Neal # Copyright (C) 2001, Tobias Vancura # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA # 02111-1307, USA # # # This code derived from Padzensky's work on package Finance::YahooQuote, # but extends its capabilites to encompas a greater number of data sources. # # This code was developed as part of GnuCash require 5.005; use strict; package Finance::Quote::Fool; use HTTP::Request::Common; use LWP::UserAgent; use Exporter; use vars qw/$FOOL_URL $VERSION @FIELDS $MAX_REQUEST_SIZE @ISA/; $VERSION = "0.1"; $FOOL_URL = 'http://quote.fool.com/quotes.csv?symbols='; # This is the maximum number of stocks we'll batch into one operation. # If this gets too big (>50 or thereabouts) things will break because # some proxies and/or webservers cannot handle very large URLS. $MAX_REQUEST_SIZE = 40; @FIELDS = qw/symbol price change open close high low yhigh ylow div yield vol avg_vol pe/; sub methods {return (fool => \&fool)} # The follow methods are valid, but not enabled for this release until further # testing has been performed. # usa => \&fool, # nasdaq => \&fool, # nyse => \&fool )} # { my @labels = (base_fool_labels(), "p_change", "currency", "method"); sub labels { return (fool => \@labels); } } sub base_fool_labels { return (@FIELDS) } # Query the stocks from the Motley Fool website (www.fool.com). The # data is returned as comma separated values, similar to Yahoo!Finance sub fool { my $quoter = shift; my @stocks = splice(@_, 0, $MAX_REQUEST_SIZE); return unless @stocks; my %info; my $ua = $quoter->user_agent; my $response = $ua->request(GET $FOOL_URL.join(",",@stocks)); return unless $response->is_success; # Okay, the data is here my $reply = $response->content; my $i=0; foreach (split('\x0D', $reply)) { if ( $i++ ) { # the first line only contains info about # the requested data, so we just skip it. my @q = $quoter->parse_csv($_); my $symbol = $q[0]; # print "Symbol: $symbol\n"; if ($#q != 13) { $info{$symbol, "success"} = 0; $info{$symbol, "errormsg"} = "Stock lookup failed"; # print "ERROR\n"; } else { for (my $j=1; $j < @FIELDS; $j++) { # print "j = $j, $FIELDS[$j], $q[$j]\n"; $info{$symbol, $FIELDS[$j]} = $q[$j]; } $info{$symbol, "currency"} = "USD"; $info{$symbol, "method"} = "fool"; # change_p = change / prev_cl * 100% $info{$symbol, "p_change"} = $q[2]/$q[4]*100; } } } return %info if wantarray; return \%info; } 1; =head1 NAME Finance::Quote::Fool - Obtain quotes from the Motley Fool web site. =head1 SYNOPSIS use Finance::Quote; $q = Finance::Quote->new; %stockinfo = $q->fetch("fool","GE", "INTC"); =head1 DESCRIPTION This module obtains information from the Motley Fool website (www.fool.com). The site provides date from NASDAQ, NYSE and AMEX. This module is loaded by default on a Finance::Quote object. It's also possible to load it explicity by placing "Fool" in the argument list to Finance::Quote->new(). Information returned by this module is governed by the Motley Fool's terms and conditions. =head1 LABELS RETURNED The following labels may be returned by Finance::Quote::Fool: symbol, price, change, open, close, high, low, yhigh, ylow, div, yield, vol, avg_vol, pe, change_p, currency, method. =head1 SEE ALSO Motley Fool, http://www.fool.com Finance::Quote. =cut