YAHOOQUOTE(1p)

📦 version 0.25, in ubuntu jammy

✨ YAHOOQUOTE ✨

okay bestie, so this is yahooquote from section 1p of the manual — the user-contributed Perl docs zone 💅. Yes, the p stands for Perl, iykyk. She's an old one, she's a scrappy little script, and she's here to pull stock quotes off Yahoo! for you. Let's get into it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

yahooquote — literally just: get stock quotes from Yahoo! 📈✨ no cap.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

here's how you run her, look at all these tickers:

yahooquote SAPG.F JARD.SI 0307.HK BII.L DIA INTC T BCE.TO \
         CDL.NZ CTI.AX SCIL.SI TELMEXL.MX FTE.PA OLIV.MI  \
         TEF.MC VOLVA.ST EBTP4.SA
yahooquote --verbose T BCE.TO DTEGN.F

see that? she eats symbols for breakfast 🍓 you can throw a whole pile of tickers at her in one go, and if you want the tea, you add --verbose and she spills everything about T BCE.TO DTEGN.F. iconic behaviour honestly.

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so what is she? this script is a simple example showing off how you use Finance::YahooQuote — that's the main character module — and she doubles as a lil check-mechanism so you can download a quote or check whether a symbol even exists. vibe check for stock tickers, basically 👑

  • want a quote? she gets you a quote.
  • want to know if a symbol is real? she'll check it for you.

that's the whole thing. lowkey elegant. highkey useful. ✨

Copyright 1998 - 2002 Dj Padzensky Copyright 2002 Dirk Eddelbuettel

okay so legally speaking 📜:

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

and this part matters, bestie, don't skip it: the information that you obtain with this library may be copyrighted by Yahoo! Inc., and is governed by their usage license. See http://www.yahoo.com/docs/info/gen_disclaimer.html for more information. 🫶 so like, the quotes aren't yours-yours, ykwim?

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Dj Padzensky ("djpadz@padz.net"), PadzNet, Inc., wrote the original version — actual founding mother energy 💅 — and then Dirk Eddelbuettel ("edd@debian.org") extended it slightly. two icons, one script, we love to see it 🎀

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

  • Finance::YahooQuote — the module behind all this. go read her too, she's the blueprint 💜

and that's the whole page, no notes 🌸 this beauty is from perl v5.20.2, dated 2002-12-24, and she lives under YAHOOQUOTE(1p) — an absolute vintage queen who has been serving quotes since before you were born. periodt. 💖✨🎀

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