Finance-QuoteHist ----------------- The Finance-QuoteHist bundle is several modules designed to fetch historical stock quotes from the web: Finance::QuoteHist ------------------ Top level aggregator that will select a default lineup of site instances from which to retrieve quotes. Other than the default lineup, this module behaves identically to whichever site-specific module is first in the lineup. See below for site-specific modules. Finance::QuoteHist::Generic --------------------------- The real workhorse of the bundle, a sub class of LWP::UserAgent. Site-specific modules are sub classes of this module. Finance::QuoteHist::Yahoo ------------------------- Specific instance of the Generic module tailored for the Yahoo website. This subclass also features information on historical splits and dividends. Finance::QuoteHist::WallStreetCity ---------------------------------- Specific instance of the Generic module tailored for the Wall Street City websited. Historical quotes only. Finance::QuoteHist::SiliconInvestor ----------------------------------- Specific instance of the Generic module tailored for the Silicon Investor website. Historical quotes only, although this appears to be one of the few sites offering historical information on defunct symbols. There used to be modules for Motley Fool as well as FinancialWeb, but the Fool ceased offering tabular data and FinancialWeb appears to be gone for good. INSTALLATION You install HTML-Element-Extended, as you would install any perl library, by running these commands: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install DOCUMENTATION POD style documentation is included with each module. This is normally converted to a manual page and installed as part of the "make install" process. You should also be able to use the 'perldoc' utility to extract and read documentation from the module file directly. See Changes for recent changes. SUPPORT There is a mailing list available. To view past messages or subscribe, go to: http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/quotehist-general Questions and comments can also be directed to Matt Sisk AVAILABILITY The library is available from CPAN: http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/M/MS/MSISK/ The latest version is also available at: http://www.mojotoad.com/sisk/projects/Finance-QuoteHist/ DISCLAIMER The data returned from these modules is in no way guaranteed, nor are the developers responsible in any way for how this data (or lack thereof) is used. The interface is based on URLs and page layouts that might change at any time. Even though these modules are designed to be adaptive under these circumstances, they will at some point probably be unable to retrieve data unless fixed or provided with new parameters. Furthermore, the data from these web sites is usually not even guaranteed by the web sites themselves, and oftentimes is acquired elsewhere. See the documentation for each site-specific module for more information regarding the disclaimer for that site. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thanks to Jim Miner for his generous efforts testing this module. Thanks to Josh Woodward for some pointers on the Yahoo interface. Thanks to Bernd Hacker, Christian von Engelbrechten, Gary Nielson, Bill Stephenson, and Robert S. Weigel for their bug-spotting. COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 1999-2002 Matthew P. Sisk. All rights reserved. All wrongs revenged. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.