How to get a real-time stock quote using Google API

January 5th, 2009 | 11 Comments | Tagged as , , , ,

After resolving the problem with authentication, I continued playing around with Google Finance API, using HTTP and XML. The API offers some nice functionality to retrieve user portfolio content, but it doesn’t take long to realize that there is no support for retrieving (real-time) stock quotes, probably for some good reason like licensing. But then, there is a way of getting real-time stock quotes on your Google Spreadsheet using the GoogleFinance() formula. Can this fact get us closer to retrieving real-time stock quotes using Google Data API?

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Troubleshooting 401 with GoogleLogin Authorization header

December 29th, 2008 | 2 Comments | Tagged as , ,

I was writing a small script to retrieve some data from Google Finance using the relevant Google Data API. I’m writing a stand-alone, desktop application and have therefore used the ClientLogin username and password authentication. The login worked fine, I was receiving HTTP status 200 and the appropriate response with the authentication token. Yet any subsequent attempt to use the Data API (to insance to retrieve the portfolio data) failed with HTTP 401 Token Invalid error.

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Satellite Imagery of Slovakia updated on Google Earth

August 18th, 2008 | No Comments | Tagged as

Updated. Satellite imagery of Slovak Republic and some other Central European (CE) countries on Google Earth (and Google Maps) got an update recently.

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Slovakia updated on Google Maps

May 17th, 2007 | 1 Comment | Tagged as , ,

“In the vast universe of Google users, a small cadre of aficionados exists who closely track every move of the search industry leader and act as a kind of editorial board and echo chamber for all things Google” wrote David Vise in his book “The Google Story“. I came across that statement while reading the book yesterday.

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