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May 31, 2014 14:50
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My function for Google App Script to grab tickers
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function updateClosingPrice() { | |
var spreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet(); | |
var positions = spreadsheet.getRangeByName('positions') | |
var values = positions.getValues(); | |
var numRows = positions.getNumRows(); | |
// Collect all of the symbols | |
var symbols = []; | |
for (var i = 0; i <= numRows - 1; i++) { | |
var row = values[i]; | |
if (row[1] != 'Stock') continue; | |
var stockSymbol = row[2]; | |
symbols.push('"'+stockSymbol+'"'); | |
} | |
// Fetch the data | |
var params = [ | |
'format=json', | |
'q='+encodeURIComponent('select symbol,Change,LastTradePriceOnly from yahoo.finance.quotes where symbol in ('+symbols.join(',')+')'), | |
'env='+encodeURIComponent('store://datatables.org/alltableswithkeys'), | |
] | |
var url = "http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?"+params.join('&'); | |
var response = JSON.parse(UrlFetchApp.fetch(url).getContentText()).query.results.quote; | |
// Turn it into a map | |
symbols = {}; | |
for (var i = 0; i < response.length; i++) { | |
var data = response[i]; | |
data.Change = data.Change.replace('+',''); | |
symbols[data.symbol] = data; | |
} | |
// Update the spreadsheet | |
for (var i = 0; i <= numRows - 1; i++) { | |
var row = values[i]; | |
if (row[1] != 'Stock') continue; | |
var stockSymbol = row[2]; | |
var stockInfo = symbols[stockSymbol]; | |
Logger.log('Updating price of ('+stockSymbol+') from ' + row[7] + ' to '+stockInfo.LastTradePriceOnly); | |
spreadsheet.getRange('positions').getCell(i+1, 8).setValue(stockInfo.LastTradePriceOnly); | |
Logger.log('Updating change of ('+stockSymbol+') from ' + row[9] + ' to '+stockInfo.Change); | |
spreadsheet.getRange('positions').getCell(i+1, 10).setValue(stockInfo.Change); | |
} | |
} |
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if github only let me leave inline gist comments, I could nitpick about missing a
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on L3 :) nice work.