Description

This grails plugin uses the yahoo finance web services to retrieve stock information and statistics.

Features

• Provides all statistical data for multiple stocks as defined by Yahoo web services
• Provides historical data for a single stock

Usage

In a service or controller:

You can call the methods available in the YahooFinanceYQLService.

• yahooFinanceYQLService.quote(String symbols)
• yahooFinanceYQLService.quote(String symbols, String statistics)
• yahooFinanceYQLService.getHistoricalQuotes(String symbol, int numberOfDays)
• yahooFinanceYQLService.getHistoricalQuotes(String symbol, String startDate, String endDate)
• yahooFinanceYQLService.getHistoricalQuotes(String symbol, Date startDate, Date endDate)
• yahooFinanceYQLService.availableStats - list of all statistics that can be retrieved.

Tag

<yahoofinance:quote symbol="" stat="" />

Examples

In grails views:

<yahoofinance:quote symbol="YHOO" stat="lastTrade" />
symbol - the company stock symbol
stat - the name of the statistic to retrieve

In controller or service:

`
class MyClass {
def yahooFinanceYQLService

def listOfStandardStats = yahooFinanceYQLService.quote("YHOO")
// => returns List - symbol: "YHOO", name: "Yahoo Inc.", lastTrade: "15.50", ...
def multipleStocks = yahooFinanceYQLService.quote("YHOO, MSFT")
// => returns List [symbol: "YHOO", name: "Yahoo Inc.", lastTrade: "15.50", ...],
//    [symbol: "MSFT", name: "Microsoft Inc.", lastTrade: "29.50", ...]
def specificStats = yahooFinanceYQLService.quote("HNR", "daysrange, volume")
// => returns List - [symbol:HNR, name:Harvest Natural R, daysrange:5.35 - 5.42, volume:470356]
def historicalLast30days = yahooFinanceYQLService.getHistoricalQuotes("YHOO", 30)
// => Returns list of [Date, Open, High, Low, Close, Volume, Adj Close] for last 30 days
def historicalLast30days = yahooFinanceYQLService.getHistoricalQuotes("YHOO", "1-1-2013", "1-31-2013")
// => returns last January historical data for stock YHOO

def sdate = new GregorianCalendar(2012, Calendar.NOVEMBER, 1).getTime()
def edate = new GregorianCalendar(2012, Calendar.OCTOBER, 1).getTime()
def historicalLast30days = yahooFinanceYQLService.getHistoricalQuotes("YHOO", sdate, edate)
// => returns historical data between Nov 1, 2012 and October 1, 2012
}

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