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Has anybody written a program that extracts real time stock quotes from a web site? Which site allowed…?

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Has anybody written a program that extracts real time stock quotes from a web site? Which site allowed…?

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I wrote a program in JAVA, but you could use C# or VB. Anyway, it uses the URL for the web page with the quotes as the address of a text file and then makes an HTTP request to load the file. It’s not a matter of being allowed. The server thinks you’re a browser. Now that you have the web page as a string of characters, you get to parse it and extract the content that you want.