[R] Parsing Google Finance page data?

[Collin Lynch]

If you do not need a pure R solution, you might also find it helpful to
blend languages.  For scraping and munging tasks such as this I generally
turn to python to do extraction then feed data to R for analysis via rpy.

On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 8:57 PM, Spencer Graves <
spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com> wrote:

>       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}.
>
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>       Hope this helps.
>
>
>       Spencer Graves
>
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> 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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