def threaded(query):
# Different tags for different items
ticker = query.lower()
priceTag = "<span id=\"yfs_l84_"+str(ticker)+"\">(.+?)</span>"
# percentTag = "<span id=\"yfs_p20_"+str(ticker)+"\">(.+?)</span>"
#timeTag = "<span id=\"yfs_t53_"+str(ticker)+"\">(.+?)</span>"
# titleTag = "<h2>(.+?)</h2>"
text = urllib2.urlopen("http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s="+str(ticker)).read()
price = getReqRegexFromText(text,priceTag)
#title = getReqRegexFromText(text,titleTag)
result = str(query) + " : " + str(price)
print str(result)
def threaded(query):
# Different tags for different items
ticker = query.lower()
priceTag = "<span id=\"yfs_l84_"+str(ticker)+"\">(.+?)</span>"
# percentTag = "<span id=\"yfs_p20_"+str(ticker)+"\">(.+?)</span>"
#timeTag = "<span id=\"yfs_t53_"+str(ticker)+"\">(.+?)</span>"
# titleTag = "<h2>(.+?)</h2>"
try:
text = urllib2.urlopen("http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s="+str(ticker)).read()
price = getReqRegexFromText(text,priceTag)
mainDict[query]=price
except Exception:
#print("Exception URL")
mainDict[query]="Unavaliable"
return 0
#The diffrent regex used for extraction
## str ticker is not actually needed for easness replace it with [^.]* ie. any character repeted multiple times
priceTag = "<span id=\"yfs_l84_"+str(ticker)+"\">(.+?)</span>"
percentTag = "<span id=\"yfs_p20_"+str(ticker)+"\">(.+?)</span>"
timeTag = "<span id=\"yfs_t53_"+str(ticker)+"\">(.+?)</span>"
titleTag = "<h2>(.+?)</h2>"
else:
priceTag = "<span id=\"yfs_l84_"+str(ticker)+"\">(.+?)</span>"
percentTag = "<span id=\"yfs_p43_"+str(ticker)+"\">(.+?)</span>"
timeTag = "<span id=\"yfs_t53_"+str(ticker)+"\">(.+?)</span>"
timeTagInner = "<span id=\"yfs_t53_"+str(ticker)+"\">(.+?)EDT" # using EDT as a border , will add on EDT later
titleTag = "<h2>(.+?)</h2>"
marketCapTag = "<span id=\"yfs_j10_[^.]*\">(.+?)</span>"
# getting the values
title = getReqRegexFromText(text,titleTag)[1] # an array is returned , using the second value of that array
price = getReqRegexFromText(text,priceTag)
## There is an inner span id , get outer , then extract inner
#print str(getReqRegexFromText(text,timeTag)[0])
time = getReqRegexFromText(str(getReqRegexFromText(text,timeTag)),timeTagInner)
percent = getReqRegexFromText(text,percentTag)
marketCap = getReqRegexFromText(text,marketCapTag)
try:
price = price[0]
except Exception:
price = " Unavaliable"
try:
percent = percent[0]
except Exception:
percent = " Unavaliable"