- #DOW JONES DESKTOP GADGET HOW TO#
- #DOW JONES DESKTOP GADGET INSTALL#
- #DOW JONES DESKTOP GADGET REGISTRATION#
- #DOW JONES DESKTOP GADGET CODE#
In the Windows world, a widget is a gadget. The widget may be waiting for input from the user, such as a search box, or be "live" and actively display changes like the weather and stock market. Search box, clock, weather, calculator and stock market widgets are typical examples. (3) A mini app that displays a small amount of information on screen at all times and interacts with the user. (2) Elements in a graphical user interface (GUI). (1) An icon-based user interface such as found on smartphones and tablets.
#DOW JONES DESKTOP GADGET HOW TO#
will fetch quotes for IBM from 20120601 to 20120701 date. Assuming Python has been installed, you should be presented with a summary of usage. Then open up a command prompt, "cd" to the folder you've downloaded the script to, and try to run the script with "pyq".
#DOW JONES DESKTOP GADGET CODE#
You can get this from the project page here:Įdit : Code is now available on github and will run under Python 3 as well: Ĭlick the "download" link, and save the script somewhere suitable.
#DOW JONES DESKTOP GADGET REGISTRATION#
You can just ignore the registration page you get after clicking on one of the download links. Note they ask for registration details but it's not obligatory. Linux and Mac has Python built in.) I suggest ActiveState's Python distribution, available here:
#DOW JONES DESKTOP GADGET INSTALL#
If you'd like to try this out then you'll need to download and install Python first (on Windows. With the latest patch, the OP and anyone else that want to download ^DJI has another possible solution to download ^DJI as required. It is what I currently use to refresh my datasets on a routine basis. This is in the context of an open source command line downloader application written in Python that I've done some minor work on over the last couple of months.
3) which will now directly fetch quotes from the HTML quotes web page. Given that I actually use the ^DJI data for some of my models etc, I eventually spent an hour or 2 today writing a page scraper for the normal quotes page (e.g. Anyway, as I say, 2) also stopped working recently which left me with the frustration of not being able to keep my datasets/models updated automatically. As an aside, 2) had the benefit that it would in fact allow you to retrieve more data than was apparently available via either 1) or 3), for example, you could retrieve data all the way back to 1928 using method 2), but I digress. I know this because I've been using it and it stopped working (as it turned out) about a week ago. It turns out that while 1) has been blocked for ^DJI and some others since Aug 2011 as metioned by Mario Fernandez, 2) was actually still working until just the other day.
They are:ġ) is the one the OP listed, 2) is effectively the "download" link that you get below the web page display of quotes and 3) is the normal historical price quote webpage URL. I know this question has been answered some time ago but I've recently run into this ^DJI and Yahoo! quotes issue again due to another change at Yahoo! and have come up with a solution that might help the OP and anyone else who reaches this page as a result of a search.Īs a bit of background please note that there's several URL's that may conceivably be used to download historical quote data from Yahoo.