[SLUG] Blind numbers

[Mike Bennett]

Going back to screen-scraping. It occurred to me the best place to
probably look would be the LSE website itself, as, to be honest, it is
unlikely to regularly change layout.

http://www.londonstockexchange.com/en-gb/pricesnews/prices/Trigger/genericsearch.htm?bsg=true&ns=MKS

Links appear to be simple for Ticker codes and so I think
screen-scraping could be realistic here as I did struggle to find a
web-service that did UK stock prices.

Cheers,
Mike

On 4/11/06, Stephen O'Neill <soneill84 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> john at johnallsopp.co.uk wrote:
> > Steve's idea of using Web Services is probably better,
>
> Web services are clearly designed for precisely this kind of activity.
> However I'm not sure how great support is for the LSE etc as most are
> more US oriented.
>
> A cursory look at the google api as an alternative indicates that they
> focus on lookups from US indices, not UK.
>
> BBC don't RSS their market prices which would have been another alternative.
>
> Hats off to all your screen scrapers though - that takes patience!
>
> Steve O
>
>
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