How to create a stock quote fetching app in python

Question

I\'m quite new to programming in Python.

I want to make an application which will fetch stock prices from google finance. One exam

Answer 1

http://docs.python.org/library/urllib.html for fetching arbitrary URLs.

Apart from that you should better look a some web service providing the data in JSON format.

Otherwise you have to implement parsing etc. on your own.

Screenscrapping yahoo.com for getting the stocks is unlikely the right road to success.