Finance-QuoteHist ----------------- The Finance-QuoteHist bundle is several modules designed to fetch historical stock quotes from the web: Finance::QuoteHist ------------------ Top level aggregator that will select a default lineup of site instances from which to retrieve quotes. Other than the default lineup, this module behaves identically to whichever site-specific module is first in the lineup. See below for site-specific modules. Finance::QuoteHist::Generic --------------------------- The real workhorse of the bundle, a sub class of LWP::UserAgent. Site-specific modules are sub classes of this module. Finance::QuoteHist::MotleyFool ------------------------------ Specific instance of the Generic module tailored for the Motley Fool website. Finance::QuoteHist::FinancialWeb -------------------------------- Specific instance of the Generic module tailored for the FinancialWeb site. INSTALLATION You install HTML-Element-Extended, as you would install any perl library, by running these commands: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install DOCUMENTATION POD style documentation is included with each module. This is normally converted to a manual page and installed as part of the "make install" process. You should also be able to use the 'perldoc' utility to extract and read documentation from the module file directly. See Changes for recent changes. SUPPORT Questions and comments should be directed to Matt Sisk AVAILABILITY The library is available from CPAN: http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/M/MS/MSISK/ The latest version is also available at: http://www.mojotoad.com/sisk/projects/Finance-QuoteHist/ DISCLAIMER The data returned from these modules is in no way guaranteed, nor are the developers responsible in any way for how this data (or lack thereof) is used. The interface is based on URLs and page layouts that might change at any time. Even though these modules are designed to be adaptive under these circumstances, they will at some point probably be unable to retrieve data unless fixed or provided with new parameters. Furthermore, the data from these web sites is usually not even guaranteed by the web sites themselves, and oftentimes is acquired elsewhere. See the documentation for each site-specific module for more information regarding the disclaimer for that site. COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 1999-2000 Matthew P. Sisk. All rights reserved. All wrongs revenged. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.