Irish Stock Exchange data feeds?

Evil Phil

Anyone know where to get them? I'm looking for an API rather than an on screen ticker.

stephenlane80

Heres a little trickaroo you can use

I'll give an example in c# but you can do it in any language, you need to post the following query string to the yahoo web server and you will get back a .csv file with the feed data:

"http://uk.old.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=SYMBOL&f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv"

you change the red bit called symbol for the symbol you want, this is an AIB example:
"http://uk.old.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=AIB&f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv"

and this is a FDB exmaple, its symbol is EG7.IR :
"http://uk.old.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=EG7.IR&f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv"

Here is the c# example to parse the data from the csv file into a string:

string symbol = "AIB";
string url = "http://uk.old.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=" + symbol +"&f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv";

WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(url);
WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());
string str = reader.ReadLine();

The data you get back to the string will be like this:
AIB,7.05, 4:32PM,12/23/2008,-0.45,7.20,7.20,7.10,475

The schema is as follows:

Symbol last_trade trade_time trade_date change open high low volume

Hope this helps, its probably a good enough method if the application you have in mind isnt too data intensive. if it is it might be a bettersolution to cache the data locally and refresh every 5 mins or so

Thomas_S_Hunterson

Evil Phil wrote: »

Anyone know where to get them? I'm looking for an API rather than an on screen ticker.

You'd have to pay to get access to the real-time data.

To get the delayed feeds, I think scraping is the best option. I don't know of any APIs.

stephenlane80

if you want to pay for an api http://www.telekurs-financial.com have a feed for the irish stock exchange, but i think a delay of 15 mins is tolerable for most applications