3 Replies Latest reply on Dec 7, 2017 12:27 PM by matthewo

create an international stock ticker

Jackson Dec 5, 2017 11:58 AM

I am working on creating a stock ticker with daily currency. Yahoo finance api is no longer working so I have been trying various methods such as the alpha vantage api and trying to find stock ticker widgets. Since this is an international stock, not all apis carry that data. The stock is 0787.HK which is from Hong Kong. I originally had this from the yahoo finance api. Also, the client is using the jive platform which only uses the html5 widget and has some limitations on javascript. Trying to working my way around it but if anyone has any suggestions, please help!

I have attached the original working code with yahoo finance!

Thanks so much!

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Re: create an international stock ticker

matthewo Dec 6, 2017 11:31 AM (in response to Jackson)

Hey Jackson,

We ran into the exact same scenario with our stock ticker. Yahoo had a great thing going

That said, we also looked at AlphaVantage and were successful in getting our stock data through this new service (seems to be working pretty well so far with only a few outages).

I did a bit of digging for you and it turns out that the service seems to cover most markets globally. The format however is not documented anywhere, but after some syntactical trial and error, I think I found Global Brands Group Holding Ltd under 0787.HK. So the complete URL for gathering daily data would work out to https://www.alphavantage.co/query?function=TIME_SERIES_DAILY&symbol=0787.HK&interval=1min&apikey=[yourAPIKey]

Hope this helps.

Cheers!
Matt
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  Jackson Dec 7, 2017 11:56 AM (in response to matthewo)
  
  Hey Matthew,
  
  Thank you so much for that info! Trying to read the documentation to create a html5 stock ticker widget, you have helped me so much!
  
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    matthewo Dec 7, 2017 12:27 PM (in response to Jackson)
    
    You're welcome!
    
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