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January 24, 2014 19:36
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// A fault tolerant Google apps script for fetching dividend data from Yahoo Finance (original fault intolerant script was taken from http://seekingalpha.com/article/568641-using-google-spreadsheet-as-your-watch-list | |
function GetDividends(symbol) { | |
/* Manipulate the symbol, as necessary */ | |
if (symbol.search(/\.b/i) >= 0) | |
{ | |
symbol = symbol.replace(/\.b/i, "-B"); | |
} | |
var urlToFetch = sprintf('http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=%1$s&f=dq', | |
symbol); | |
var success = false; | |
try { | |
response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(urlToFetch); | |
success = true; | |
} catch (e) { | |
success = false; | |
} | |
var i = 0; | |
while ( (i < NUM_OF_ATTEMPTS) && success && (response.getResponseCode() != 200)) { | |
try { | |
Utilities.sleep(SLEEP_TIME_IN_MILLISECONDS); | |
response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(urlToFetch); | |
success = true; | |
} catch (e) { | |
} | |
i++; | |
} | |
if (success && (response.getResponseCode() == 200)) { | |
var responseData = response.getContentText(); | |
} else { | |
var responseData = "-0.0001, -0.002"; | |
} | |
return responseData.split(','); | |
} |
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