I have been able to obtain stock and index data from Fidelity by setting up a connection to the relevant Fidelity page; writing the results to a worksheet; and then finding the results I want on that sheet.
I am now trying to simplify and avoid using both IE and the temporary worksheet page. The code below, using Microsoft XML, v6.0 seems to download all the relevant information, but I cannot figure out how to process things afterward so as to be able to extract the Name, Last Price, and Date/Time of that last price.
I have looked at Yahoo finance and Google finance, but they don't have all of the indices that I am interested in.
The code below gets me to the point of downloading the page information, but the only components that I see being returned by the "Get" is responseText
(which I have split up and placed on a worksheet for examination), and responseBody
which seems to be an array of character codes of the contents of responseText
.
Perhaps I shouldn't even be using the MS XML tool in the first place, but it seems to me this should be possible.
Thanks for any pointers.
Sub FIDOQuoteTester()
'Set Reference to Microsoft XML V6.0
Const sURLPart1 As String = "http://quotes.fidelity.com/webxpress/get_quote?QUOTE_TYPE=D&SID_VALUE_ID="
Const sURLPart3 As String = "&submit=Quote"
Dim sURL As String
Dim sSymbols As String '+ separated list
Dim REQ As MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP60 'using Server type as the other raises security problems
Dim V As Variant, R As Range
Dim S As String
sSymbols = ".DJI+.SPX"
sURL = sURLPart1 & sSymbols & sURLPart3
Set REQ = New ServerXMLHTTP60
REQ.Open "Get", sURL, False
REQ.send
S = REQ.responseText
Stop
'putting string on worksheet for examination
'Need to split the string as it is too long for a cell.
V = Split(S, vbLf)
Set R = Range("a1").Resize(UBound(V) + 1, 1)
With R
.EntireColumn.Clear
.Value = WorksheetFunction.Transpose(V)
End With
End Sub