[Kde-finance-apps] help on a new application

[Thomas Baumgart]

Hi,

on Thursday 20 May 2010 Brian Cappello wrote:

> Hi Santosh,
> I think you've got an absolutely great idea here! I too am a newbie, but I
> can at least say that one way to get intraday stock quotes is by
> downloading/reading CSV files from Yahoo.

Hello to the 'new kids on the block' and a warm welcome also from my end. I am 
probably more of an oldie these days around here (though I know there are 
still others with more years on their back - but I won't tell anybody).

> However, in my experience even
>  the realtime-specific (RT) parameters are not reliably realtime...
>  sometimes they are, sometimes they're delayed. This page explains the URL
>  and parameters you can choose from:
> http://www.etraderzone.com/free-scripts/50-yahoo-stock-quotes.htmlOtherwise
> , you basically just read in a text stream, split up the resulting
> strings by comma, and access the resulting stringlists by index (relative
>  to the parameters you chose to download).

Most of that can be found in KMyMoney's KEquityUpdateDlg and WebPriceQuote 
classes. This code is even capable to extract the price information from a 
'shiny' web-page. Maybe, it gives you a couple of ideas.

In that respect, not only stock price quotes are interesting but also currency 
conversion rates. So please keep those in mind as well.

Having a price backend which collects and stores all those things would be a 
cool thing to have. It can even be used by different applications (having 
KMyMoney and Skrooge in mind) using a well defined (D-Bus?) interface.

Whenever you have a proposal/plan/spec available, I am happy to discuss it 
with you. If you have questions, let us know. We'll try to figure out an 
answer.



> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:31 AM, santosh kumar 
<santosh.k66 at gmail.com>wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I am Santosh Kumar , an engineeering student from new delhi , India.
> >
> >  I want to create a sms alert plugin for kde finance apps.
> > using real time nyse and other local stock tickers ,we can create a
> > real time alerts system which can be customized according to the
> > user's need.
> >
> > We can even think about porting it to other kde apps,  once developed.
> >
> > But I am a newbie developer for the open source and will need much
> > help from my mentor kirsten onet and the community at large.
> >
> > saying Hi to kisten and to community.
> >
> > I will post a broader framework if people are intersted.
> >
> > Does someone know about some stock tickers that are part of python or
> > other libraries?
> >
> > and what about the sms server? Do I need to build it myself or is it
> > there in the opensource.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > encore
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> 

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Regards

Thomas Baumgart

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