How to parse the stock name in Yahoo Finance?
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Yahoo Finance Script
This script will open a web request to the Yahoo Finance Server. After that it searches for the element, which includes the full stock name.
mattionline:/home/stock# cat fetchname.php
<?php
if($argv[1] != "") {
$symbol = $argv[1];
$url = "https://de.finance.yahoo.com/quote/".$symbol;
$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 5;
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
$html = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$dom = new DOMDocument();
@$dom->loadHTML($html);
$link = $dom->getElementById('quote-header-info');
$test = explode("(", $link->textContent);
$name = $test[0];
echo $name;
}
?>Execution of the programm
The parameter of the script is just the short symbol from Yahoo Finance to open the URL.
The output of the script is the full stock name.
You can edit the getElementById command to fetch other values like some fundamental stock data, historic prices or whatever….
mattionline:/home/stock# php -f fetchname.php CALN.SW
Calida Holding AG
mattionline:/home/stock# php -f fetchname.php FRE.F
Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA
mattionline:/home/stock#