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googlefinance
=============

Python module to get stock data from Google Finance API

This module provides **no delay**, **real time** stock data in NYSE &
NASDAQ.

Another awesome module,
`yahoo-finance <https://github.com/lukaszbanasiak/yahoo-finance>`__'s
data is delayed by 15 min, but it provides convenient apis to fetch
historical day-by-day stock data.

Install
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From PyPI with pip:

::

    $pip install googlefinance

From development repo (requires git)

::

    $git clone https://github.com/hongtaocai/googlefinance.git
    $cd googlefinance
    $python setup.py install

Usage example
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::

    >>> from googlefinance import getQuotes
    >>> import json
    >>> print json.dumps(getQuotes('AAPL'), indent=2)
    [
      {
        "Index": "NASDAQ", 
        "LastTradeWithCurrency": "129.09", 
        "LastTradeDateTime": "2015-03-02T16:04:29Z", 
        "LastTradePrice": "129.09", 
        "Yield": "1.46", 
        "LastTradeTime": "4:04PM EST", 
        "LastTradeDateTimeLong": "Mar 2, 4:04PM EST", 
        "Dividend": "0.47", 
        "StockSymbol": "AAPL", 
        "ID": "22144"
      }
    ]
    >>> print json.dumps(getQuotes(['AAPL', 'VIE:BKS']), indent=2)
    [
      {
        "Index": "NASDAQ", 
        "LastTradeWithCurrency": "129.36", 
        "LastTradeDateTime": "2015-03-03T16:02:36Z", 
        "LastTradePrice": "129.36", 
        "LastTradeTime": "4:02PM EST", 
        "LastTradeDateTimeLong": "Mar 3, 4:02PM EST", 
        "StockSymbol": "AAPL", 
        "ID": "22144"
      }, 
      {
        "Index": "VIE", 
        "LastTradeWithCurrency": "17.10", 
        "LastTradeDateTime": "2015-03-03T13:30:30Z", 
        "LastTradePrice": "17.10", 
        "LastTradeTime": "1:30PM GMT+1", 
        "LastTradeDateTimeLong": "Mar 3, 1:30PM GMT+1", 
        "StockSymbol": "BKS", 
        "ID": "978541942832888"
      }
    ]