The Ecfun package includes functions written to scrape data from
web pages. See, e.g., readUShouse, readUSsenate,
readUSstateAbbreviations. They use getURL{RCurl} and readHTMLTable{XML}.
Hope this helps.
Spencer Graves
On 11/20/2014 5:42 PM, Matt Considine wrote:
Hi,
I'm wondering if anyone can point me to code to parse data on Google
Finance pages, i.e. parse the results of a URL request such as this
http://www.google.com/finance?q=apple
I know how to return the contents of the page; it's figuring out the
best tools to parse it that I'm interested in and hopefully someone
has already done this.
(For what it is worth, the only info I am looking for are the ticker,
exchange, currency and "Mkt Cap" datapoint)
Thanks in advance for any help - scraping is not my strong suit.
Matt
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