[Chicago-talk] Getting quotes from the CBOE

Bradley Slavik fire at dls.net
Tue Jul 7 08:41:06 PDT 2009



On Tue 09/07/07 08:33 , Jay Strauss me at heyjay.com sent:
> Thanks,    I was looking at Yahoo after I posted.  It would probably
> be a PITA to parse it all.  Yahoo doesn't seem to provide any API
> to their Finance area (outside of RSS feeds).   Thanks Jay
> 
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 6:39 AM, imran javaid  wrote:
> Real time would not be easy (even if you pay for it).  
> For delayed quotes, try Yahoo Finance, e.g.
> http://finance.yahoo.com/q/op?s=IBM&m=2009-07 [2]        On Mon,
> Jul 6, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Jay Strauss  wrote:
> Hi,   I wanted to get option prices.  Real time is great, but
> delayed is fine too.   Thanks Jay
> 

For shame! Pretty trivial actually. Just use Andy's WWW::Mechanize
and you should have what you want quickly.

Bradley


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