NAME

Finance::QuoteTW - Fetch quotes of mutual funds in Taiwan

SYNOPSIS

use Finance::QuoteTW;

$q = Finance::QuoteTW->new(encoding => 'utf8');  # The default encoding is big5
@tisc_fund = $q->fetch(site => 'tisc');          # Fetch all fund quotes from www.tisc.com.tw
$tisc_fund = $q->fetch(site => 'tisc');          # Do the same thing but get an array reference
@us_funds  = $q->fetch(site => 'blackrock', name => 'taiwan.*'); # Select funds with regex
%all_funds = $q->fetch_all;                      # Fetch all available fund quotes
%all_onshore_funds  = $q->fetch_all('onshore');  # Fetch all available onshore fund quotes
%all_offshore_funds = $q->fetch_all('offshore'); # Fetch all available offshore fund quotes

DESCRIPTION

Finance::QuoteTW provides a easy way to get the latest fund quotes from various website in Taiwan

METHODS

new

Take an optional argument 'encoding'. The default value is big5.

Finance::QuoteTW->new(encoding => 'utf8');

names

Return currently available site names.

$q->names;
$q->names('onshore');
$q->names('offshore');

fetch

Return all fund quotes from specified site. You can use regex to filter the fund quotes. The return value is a hash of array. Every hash contains a single fund information. The attributes are: name, date, nav, change, type, currency

$q->fetch( site => 'tisc' );
$q->fetch( site => 'blackrock', name => 'taiwan.*');
$q->fetch( site => 'jpmrich',   type => 'onshore');

fetch_all

Fetch fund quotes from all available sites. The return value is a hash (or a hash reference). The keys of the hash is the site abbreviations.

$q->fetch_all;
$q->fetch_all('onshore');
$q->fetch_all('offshore');

AUTHOR

Alec Chen <alec@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2007 by Alec Chen. All rights reserved.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.