Yes you are right. You can access the data from the servers of yahoo directly. It's not necessary to do a web query. For example you can download directly the historical prices of the Dow Jones Industrial Average with these url (you'll obtain a csv format file with all data inside): http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=%5EDJI&a=00&b=1&c=2009&d=03&e=6&f=2009&g=d&ignore=.csv If you have any doubt don't hesitate in contact me Good Luck with your project!
bye On Apr 6, 12:10 pm, Raymond Mills <effectivemsofficesoluti...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I must say I am interested in your project... I worked on this exact task > this past weekend. > I use a web query function to extract the data (I munipulate the url to adj > the data date range and symbol) > and if the data comes back in an unusual/unexpected format...i consider it a > fail and react accordingly > > Id love to url an HTTpRequest...are you saying u can access the data rather > than the page??? > > On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 12:12 PM, vitovla <slbcr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I'm developing an application to download the data from yahoo finance > > servers. > > > How Can I do to break a process if the yahoo page is not available and/ > > or the connection failed? > > > thanks a lot --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some important links for excel users: 1. Excel and VBA Tutorials(Video and Text), Free add-ins downloads at http://www.excelitems.com 2. Excel tutorials at http://www.excel-macros.blogspot.com 3. Learn VBA Macros at http://www.vbamacros.blogspot.com 4. Excel Tips and Tricks at http://exceldailytip.blogspot.com To post to this group, send email to excel-macros@googlegroups.com If you find any spam message in the group, please send an email to: Ayush Jain @ jainayus...@gmail.com or Ashish Jain @ 26may.1...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
