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Display stocks data from Google Finance or Yahoo! Finance

Can I use the Google Finance API to get stock data?

If there is a Flash or Javascript viewer for such stocks data it would be good.
I found some chart components that could be used for the same:

Solution

  • Yahoo! Finance gives you real-time stock quotes. Data is returned as a CSV.

    See this NASDAQ page at http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=^IXIC

    1. Click the Download Data button to access live data

    2. Click the Download To Spreadsheet button to access historical data

    You can access that data from Flash using the LoadVars or URLLoader classes. Use unescape() to decode the string from its URL-encoded format.