stock price api

[Peijen]

Anyone can recommend a free api for getting stock price, doesn't have to be real-time but more than 1 hour delay is probably not acceptable.

[quantus]

A friend made his own and is unwilling to part with his code for free. He says, "there are some that are simple websites that you can dl and parse, but if you want real api like bloomberg, there is none"

[Jonathan]

You know, there's something really insidious about this.

APIs of old were either free or not free. The not free ones developers licensed for a flat fee and got on with it.

Modern web APIs charge per instance. The fees scale with use. And that money is coming out of the developer's pocket, unless you've managed the nirvana state of revenue generation.

It's pretty broken, really.

[quantus]

It's standard business of who's making the profit. The API developers got tired of being poor even though they were supplying the data to drive other people's bottom lines.

[Peijen]

yahoo financial end up satisfies my need (and is simple enough to make my intern to learn it, the Bloomberg api is pretty complex)