Securities

Financial information scraper gem. Uses Yahoo Finance API. Current functionality demo of this gem, working in synergy with gem ta: http://strangemuseum.heroku.com

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'securities'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install securities

Usage

You can get stock information with commands:

my_stocks = Securities::Stock.new(:symbol => 'AAPL', :start_date => '2012-01-01', :end_date => '2012-02-01', :type => :weekly)

Optional parameter :type accepts :daily, :weekly, :monthly, :dividend. If not specified, it defaults to :daily.

:end_date defaults to Date.today if not specified.

You can access hash for a single stock with:

my_stocks.output
my_stocks.symbol
my_stocks.start_date
my_stocks.end_date
my_stocks.type

Output is returned in a hash:

	[{:date=>"2012-01-03", 
	:open=>"409.40", 
	:high=>"412.50", 
	:low=>"409.00", 
	:close=>"411.23", 
	:volume=>"10793600", 
	:adj_close=>"409.47"}, 
	{:date=>"2012-01-04",
	:open=>"410.00",
	:high=>"414.68", 
	:low=>"409.28", 
	:close=>"413.44", 
	:volume=>"9286500", 
	:adj_close=>"411.67"}]

Stock symbol lookup:

my_lookup = Securities::Lookup.new('Google')

Returns a hash with matched symbol, name, last trade, type, industry/category, exchange.

my_lookup.output

	[{:symbol=>"GOOG",
	 :name=>"Google Inc.",
	 :last_trade=>"726.31",
	 :type=>"Stock", 
	 :industry_category=>"Internet Information Providers", 
	 :exchange=>"NMS"}, 
	 {:symbol=>"GOOG.MX", 
	 :name=>"Google Inc.", 
	 :last_trade=>"9,306.00", 
	 :type=>"Stock", 
	 :industry_category=>"Internet Information Providers", 
	 :exchange=>"MEX"}, 
	 ...]

 my_lookup.input returns 'Google'

Version 2.0.0

• Adds support for stock symbol lookup.

• Removes support for multiple stock input cause it complects the gem code and its implementation without adding much to it.

To do:

• Add quote info (P/E, P/S, etc.)
• Add options support.

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request