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    web address to get stock prices

    This address and code used to work to get stock prices directly using stock symbols. Worked great for years. The web address service is being discontinued. Anyone have a different address/method to acquire stock prices?
    Code:
     
    link = "http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s="+vsymbol+"&f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv"
    result = http_get(link)
    p.price = word(result.body,2,",")
    stock_data = p
    vc_price_now=convert_type(stock_data.price,"c")
    vn_price_now=val(vc_price_now)
    Mike W
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    #2
    Re: web address to get stock prices

    Mike have a look at https://www.alphavantage.co/documentation/
    Alex Collier

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      #3
      Re: web address to get stock prices

      Hi Alex,
      Thank you for that. Unfortunately, I can't get any data out from the api return. There is an example of the address to get data:
      https://www.alphavantage.co/query?fu...ll&apikey=demo
      I can use sys_open() for the url and delivered is a CSV file that I can save or open and do manual extractions, but http_get() doesn't return data and I haven't discovered a way to have the return deliver data that I can extract using code.
      Mike W
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        #4
        Re: web address to get stock prices

        Seems to work ok...

        Code:
        function getStocks as c (e as p)
        	
        	debug(1)
        	
        	dim url as c = "https://www.alphavantage.co/query?function=TIME_SERIES_INTRADAY&symbol=MSFT&interval=1min&apikey=demo"
        	dim result as p
        	result = http_get(url)
        	
        end function
        The returned JSON is in result.body.

        You can also do this client-side using the fetch() api... which is cool because fetch() uses promises.

        Code:
        function getStocks(){
        
        	debugger;
        	var stockURL = "https://www.alphavantage.co/query?function=TIME_SERIES_INTRADAY&symbol=MSFT&interval=1min&apikey=demo"
        	
        	fetch(stockURL)
        		.then(function(response) {
        			if (response.status !== 200) {
        				console.log('Looks like there was a problem. Status Code: ' +
        				response.status);
        				return;
        			}
        		
        			// Examine the text in the response
        		      
        			response.json().then(function(data) {
        				console.log(data);
        			});
        		})
        		.catch(function(err) {
        			console.log('Fetch Error :-S', err);
        		});
        
        
        }
        The returned JSON is in the data variable. In this case it's being sent to the console.

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          #5
          Re: web address to get stock prices

          mike,
          you originally posted this in the desktop section, so i am assuming you are doing this in the desktop side. also somehow i think you have version 12, that i cannot be certain.
          i have tried http_get, http_fetch several times on my own and also in trying to answer this question. i cannot succeed. there may be problems the way alpha version of http functions work. jerry has indicated to use http_fetch and http_fetch_page in another post, that could be useful or if in fact you have version 12 take a look at curl integration that will definitely work, since i can easily get the json data using curl. i cannot test curl integration since it is not available in version 11 unless i write my own wrapper for it.
          Last edited by GGandhi; 12-15-2017, 09:27 AM.
          thanks for reading

          gandhi

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            #6
            Re: web address to get stock prices

            http_get() absolutely will work for this, however I see that the service can be quite slow though. The default timeout for http_get() is 8 seconds, so if the service does not respond in that amount of time, you will not get the results. You will be able to verify that this is the problem by looking at the error_text property returned from your http_get() call.

            You can specify a longer timeout as follows:

            Code:
            link = "https://www.alphavantage.co/query?function=TIME_SERIES_INTRADAY&symbol=MSFT&interval=1min&apikey=demo"
            timeout = 30000 '30 seconds (in milliseconds)
            result = http_get(link, "", 443, timeout)
            Last edited by Lenny Forziati; 12-15-2017, 03:51 PM.

            Lenny Forziati
            Vice President, Internet Products and Technical Services
            Alpha Software Corporation

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              #7
              Re: web address to get stock prices

              Lenny
              I just want to bring to your attention that mike is able to with yahoo
              That service is going away according to him
              The problem with is with Alphavantage
              Sorry to interject in mike’s thread
              thanks for reading

              gandhi

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                #8
                Re: web address to get stock prices

                No issues with AlphaAdvantage.co... as posted. AlphaAdvantage may take time to respond so apply Lenny's timeout solution to solve potential timing issues.

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                  #9
                  Re: web address to get stock prices

                  I've fixed my example to use alphavantage.co. I had tested with it originally, but copied the wrong code to post here. As David reiterated, it works but occasionally (often) takes longer than 8 seconds so will appear to fail if you do not increase the timeout.

                  Lenny Forziati
                  Vice President, Internet Products and Technical Services
                  Alpha Software Corporation

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                    #10
                    Re: web address to get stock prices

                    Hi everyone,
                    I appreciate everyone responding, and please don't take offense, but none of the codes and responses presented show a result actually obtained. Some of the arguments deliver results, like result.header:
                    = HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
                    Connection: close
                    Server: gunicorn/19.7.0
                    Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 23:20:54 GMT
                    Transfer-Encoding: chunked
                    Location: https://www.alphavantage.co/query?fu...in&apikey=demo
                    Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
                    Via: 1.1 vegur
                    However results.body is completely empty. Thanks Ghandi, you are very correct. It may be a source site issue and not a http_get() issue at all! I don't have the expertice to know, except the site clearly produces results via sys_open(), so I would think there would be a method to get those results, right?
                    Mike W
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                      #11
                      Re: web address to get stock prices

                      do you have version 12? i thought you had.
                      thanks for reading

                      gandhi

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                        #12
                        Re: web address to get stock prices

                        i can get the data with curl without any problem, so it is not the site. if you ask me.
                        thanks for reading

                        gandhi

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                          #13
                          Re: web address to get stock prices

                          Code:
                          link = "https://www.alphavantage.co/query?function=TIME_SERIES_INTRADAY&symbol=MSFT&interval=1min&apikey=demo"
                          timeout = 30000 '30 seconds (in milliseconds)
                          result = http_get(link, "", 443, timeout)
                          ?result
                          = body = 
                          error_code = 1813
                          error_text = Could not connect to server: Secure Sockets Layer OpenSSL Error
                          OpenSSL Description: error:14077438:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:tlsv1 alert internal error
                          Error occurred in INET::SSLSocket::Connect
                          headers = ""
                          +parsed_headers.
                          this is what I got with the code provided by lenny.
                          so I cannot get any data. remember I am still on version 11
                          thanks for reading

                          gandhi

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                            #14
                            Re: web address to get stock prices

                            Originally posted by Mike Wilson View Post
                            Hi everyone,
                            I appreciate everyone responding, and please don't take offense, but none of the codes and responses presented show a result actually obtained. Some of the arguments deliver results, like result.header:

                            However results.body is completely empty. Thanks Ghandi, you are very correct. It may be a source site issue and not a http_get() issue at all! I don't have the expertice to know, except the site clearly produces results via sys_open(), so I would think there would be a method to get those results, right?
                            Mike... you'll have to confirm your Alpha version/build... and post a sample component. Otherwise, it's just a lot of guessing.

                            It's working for me without issue.

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                              #15
                              Re: web address to get stock prices

                              The app is built in v11. It is not destined to be advanced to v12, so whether curl works does not yield a solution. I get the same results in v9, v10, v11 using http_get() FOR THIS AlphaAdvantage site, which is the same results in my hands that Gandhi posted. David, as for the "sample component" , what I have is what I have given. I am needing a site to obtain stock prices. I have been able to use http_get() successfully with the Yahoo site, with the return of the petition using http_get() being a construct that data components can be harvested. With that site being discontinued, I'm needing another source. Maybe this AlphaAdvantage site is not going to work because the return is not a composite resolvable with Alpha.

                              David, you wrote it is working for you without issue. Maybe you might show us a successful return of data in the Interactive Editor using this site and the script(s) we have been discussing, so we can see what you're scripting to achieve success, and the successful results you are obtaining? With which A5 version.

                              BTW, I have no idea how this go into "General Questions" forum. I'd like a moderator to switch this to desktop v11 or Desktop forum.
                              Last edited by Mike Wilson; 12-15-2017, 11:34 PM.
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