public static List<HistoricalStock> DownloadData(string ticker, int yearToStartFrom)
{
List<HistoricalStock> retval = new List<HistoricalStock>();
using (WebClient web = new WebClient())
{
try
{
string data = web.DownloadString(string.Format("http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s={0}&c={1}", ticker, yearToStartFrom));
data = data.Replace("\r", "");
string[] rows = data.Split('\n');
//First row is headers so Ignore it
for (int i = 1; i < rows.Length; i++)
{
if (rows[i].Replace("\n", "").Trim() == "") continue;
string[] cols = rows[i].Split(',');
HistoricalStock hs = new HistoricalStock();
hs.Date = Convert.ToDateTime(cols[0]);
hs.Open = Convert.ToDouble(cols[1]);
hs.High = Convert.ToDouble(cols[2]);
hs.Low = Convert.ToDouble(cols[3]);
hs.Close = Convert.ToDouble(cols[4]);
hs.Volume = Convert.ToDouble(cols[5]);
hs.AdjClose = Convert.ToDouble(cols[6]);
retval.Add(hs);
}
} // try close
catch (Exception ex)
{
}
return retval;
}
}
public static List <HistoricalStock> DownloadData(string ticker, int yearToStartFrom)
{
List <HistoricalStock> retval = new List <HistoricalStock>();
using (WebClient web = new WebClient())
{
try
{
string data = web.DownloadString(string.Format("http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s={0}&c={1}", ticker, yearToStartFrom));
data = data.Replace("\r", "");
string[] rows = data.Split('\n');
//First row is headers so Ignore it
for (int i = 1; i < rows.Length; i++)
{
if (rows[i].Replace("\n", "").Trim() == "")
{
continue;
}
string[] cols = rows[i].Split(',');
HistoricalStock hs = new HistoricalStock();
hs.Date = Convert.ToDateTime(cols[0]);
hs.Open = Convert.ToDouble(cols[1]);
hs.High = Convert.ToDouble(cols[2]);
hs.Low = Convert.ToDouble(cols[3]);
hs.Close = Convert.ToDouble(cols[4]);
hs.Volume = Convert.ToDouble(cols[5]);
hs.AdjClose = Convert.ToDouble(cols[6]);
retval.Add(hs);
}
} // try close
catch (Exception ex)
{
}
return(retval);
}
}