Ruby script to retrieve any information from Yahoo Finance.

stockGrep.rb

require 'open-uri'
require 'csv'

def get_info stock_symbol
  puts "#{stock_symbol} Current Ticker Information"
	url = "http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/
quotes.csv?s=#{stock_symbol}&f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv"
	puts "Connecting to #{url}\n\n\n"

	csv = CSV.parse(open(url).read)

	csv.each do |row|
		puts "--------------------------------------------"
		puts "Information current as of #{row[3]} on #{row[2]}\n\n"
		puts "#{row[0]}'s last trade was - $#{row[1]} (increase of #{row[4]})\n\n"
		puts "\tOpened at $#{row[5]}"
		puts "\tRange for the day $#{row[7]} - $#{row[6]}"
	end
	puts "--------------------------------------------"
end


print "Enter stock symbol (seperate by space if > 1): "
stock_symbols = gets.upcase

stock_symbols.split.each do |symbol|
	get_info(symbol)
end