def search_symbol(self, phrase, headn=None ):
callback = "YAHOO.Finance.SymbolSuggest.ssCallback"
url = self.url_symbol % urllib.urlencode({\
'query' : phrase.strip(),
'callback' : callback })
html = self.cache.perform_request( url ).\
replace(callback,'').strip(')(')
data = cjson.decode(html)['ResultSet']['Result']
symbols = [ d['symbol'] for d in data ]
return( qutils.head_list( symbols, headn ))
def search_symbol(self, phrase, headn=None):
# return google symbols for query phrase, may return more than 1 result!
# @param phrase: string submitted to google.finance
# @param headn: limit number of answer. If 1, just return a string, not
# a list
phrase = phrase.rstrip()
url = self.url_symbol % urllib.urlencode( {'q':phrase } )
bs = BeautifulSoup( self.cache.perform_request( url ) )
nodes = bs.findAll( 'td', {'class':re.compile('localName.*')} )
nodes = [ n.find('a') for n in nodes ]
nodes = [ n for n in nodes if n ]
links = [ n['href'].split('q=') for n in nodes if n.has_key('href') ]
syms = [ s[-1] for s in links if len(s)==2 ]
return qutils.head_list( syms, headn )
