Comments on: How to add your own shared updated stock list using Google Spreadsheets

By: TDavid

TDavid — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:05:25 +0000

Hi Michael - you will probably need/want to cut a deal with one of the finance sites for large scale stock querying. Drop them a line with your query needs. My program works for me because it’s not a lot of stocks, nor a burdensome amount of querying. What you are proposing though is on a grander scale and would require a significant amount more queries.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:13:02 +0000

You mentioned that you wrote a program which grabs the stock price for stocks. We’re building a website that will post a trading portfolio and need some automated way of updating the current prices for the stocks we’re tracking. Would you be willing to share or sell this program? My developers tell me that the Google feature you explain here cannot be integrated into our system.

Thanks!

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By: JRochelle

JRochelle — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 03:55:44 +0000

Nice idea…
I like to use the column header as the second parameter to the googlefinance() function….
=googleFinance($A1,B$2) for example… in cell B3… would let you copy/paste that to other cells (as long as the col headers are the actual values expected by the googlefinance function….
Also - if you want to show some of the sheet WITHIN a blogpost - or if you don’t want people popping in on you and chatting on your sheet (like I just did - sorry), you should check out the “Publish” tab - and click the “more publishing options” to get “HTML to embed in your web page”….. or just use a simple publishing URL to make a really fast-loading, read-only version which can be updated every 5 minutes automatically from your source spreadsheet (or not - optional).
Have fun!