Find Date
What can I do to find the date in the HTML page of a Yahoo Finance Page?
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Use an XML parser to parse the HTML, and use XPATH to extract the element you want (libxml++ for example). Or use the Boost Regex library to parse the HTML with a regular expression. Or you can write your own custom parser using some of the simplistic "find" functions of std::string.
Why are you doing this with C++?
If you are serious about parsing the quote information from Yahoo, you probably want to look at embedding a JavaScript engine in your C++ code so that you can process the data. Otherwise you will need to parse the JavaScript too, extract the data and pass that to a JSON parser.
This can be done -- libxml++, v8, and libcurl (or Boost Asio) will do the trick.
What OS are you writing this on?
If you are serious about parsing the quote information from Yahoo, you probably want to look at embedding a JavaScript engine in your C++ code so that you can process the data. Otherwise you will need to parse the JavaScript too, extract the data and pass that to a JSON parser.
This can be done -- libxml++, v8, and libcurl (or Boost Asio) will do the trick.
What OS are you writing this on?
I have to do it in C++ only, its a requirement. I have written my own parser. I use the keyword "yfi_fp_market_summary" to locate the date but bcose the date is written in words in the HTML page of the Yahoo Finance Singapore page, m nt sure.
Secondly, I tried to get the stock index values associated with the stock index names in the Yahoo Finance Page. Although I get some values, they keep repeating for each index name which means that function also doesn't work properly.
Secondly, I tried to get the stock index values associated with the stock index names in the Yahoo Finance Page. Although I get some values, they keep repeating for each index name which means that function also doesn't work properly.
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