XML Quote API - Version 2.0

Overview

XML Quotes offer simple delivery of pricing data for up to 50 securities per request. Compatible with most content management & web services, XML Quotes offer rapid error-free data integration. Data is pulled via HTTP, with integrated GZip Content-Encoding to minimize bandwidth requirements.

Retrieving data using HTTP

Once you have your demo URL, you should be able to retrieve an XML Quote by putting the supplied URL, along with the ticker symbols you would like to request into your web browser.

For Example, to retrieve an XML Quote for Yahoo!:

 http://feeds.financialcontent.com/XMLREST?Account=_ACCOUNTNAME_&Ticker=YHOO

Or, to retrieve data for several symbols:

 http://feeds.financialcontent.com/XMLREST?Account=_ACCOUNTNAME_&Ticker=YHOO+GOOG+IBM

XML Response Structure

As the ability to add fields is very important to us, we do not supply a reference DOCTYPE. Any unknown elements should be ignored.

Certain properties are maintained:

The root element of all responses is a <Quote> element

Inside each <Quote> element are multiple <Record> elements, each of which contain data for a single security

XML Response Sample

  <Quote>
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <Record>
      <RecordID>YHOO</RecordID>
      <Ticker>YHOO</Ticker>
      <CompanyName>Yahoo Inc</CompanyName>
      <ShortCompanyName>YAHOO</ShortCompanyName>
      <Exchange>Nasdaq Stock Market</Exchange>
      <ExchangeShortName>NSDQ</ExchangeShortName>
      <ExchangeCode>NQ</ExchangeCode>
      <LastTrade>1181334608</LastTrade>
      <UpdateTime>1181336446000</UpdateTime>
      <Volume>18617883</Volume>
      <Last>27.39</Last>
      <Open>27.02</Open>
      <High>27.45</High>
      <Low>26.96</Low>
      <Close>26.98</Close>
      <ChangePrice>0.41</ChangePrice>
      <ChangePercent>1.5196</ChangePercent>
      <Bid>27.36</Bid>
      <Ask>27.38</Ask>
      <BidSize>1000</BidSize>
      <AskSize>200</AskSize>
      <EPS>1.19</EPS>
      <SharesOutstanding>1343853560</SharesOutstanding>
    </Record>
  </Quote>

XML Fields

The following fields exist as children of the <Records> element

Field Name	Data Type	Meaning
RecordID	String	Ticker Symbol (As Requested)
Ticker	String	Ticker Symbol (Normalized)
CompanyName	String	Long Company Name
ShortCompanyName	String	Short Company Name
Exchange	String	Long Exchange Name
ExchangeShortName	String	Short Exchange Name
ExchangeCode	String	2 or 3 letter prefix code for exchange
LastTrade	Integer	Last Trade Time, seconds since epoch format (Jan 1, 1970)
Volume	Integer	Cumulative Volume
Last	Floating Point	Last Trade Price
Open	Floating Point	Open Price
High	Floating Point	Day's High Price
Low	Floating Point	Day's Low Price
Close	Floating Point	Previous Close Price
ChangePrice	Floating Point	Today's Change ($)
ChangePercent	Floating Point	Today's Change (%)
Bid	Floating Point	Bid Price
Ask	Floating Point	Ask Price
BidSize	Integer	Bid Size (# of shares)
AskSize	Integer	Ask Size (# of shares)
EPS	Integer	Earnings Per Share
SharesOutstanding	Integer	Shares Outstanding

XML Quote API - Version 2.0

Overview

Retrieving data using HTTP

XML Response Structure

XML Response Sample

XML Fields

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