Download from web

[cjohnson]

I need to know how to download daily information from the web. I write a lot of database applications in VB.net, but have never written anything to download information from the web. I need to download the stats like open, high,low, and close from finance.yahoo.com. Can anyone tell me how to do this, or how to get started?

Thanks,
Chris

 

[munkee]

I know the Yahoo stock information has a *.csv file that can be worked with. You could possibly parse that information into a datagrid or something rather.

just an idea.

 

[cjohnson]

Thanks. That is good to know. Can you tell me how to programatically download the information or this file?

 

[munkee]

Personally, what I would do is parse the CSV data to XML using ASP or PHP - obviously having it hosted on a web server.

I would then use that XML file as a data source for datagrid view.