NAME

Finance::TickerSymbols - Perl extension for getting symbols lists from web resources

SYNOPSIS

use Finance::TickerSymbols;
for my $symbol ( symbols_list('all') ) {

   # do something with this symbol
}

DESCRIPTION

exports the function symbols_list

symbols_list

symbols_list( 'nasdaq' | 'amex' | 'nyse' | 'all' ) returns the apropriate array of symbols.

TODO

more markets

get symbols by industry

get industries list

SEE ALSO

LWP::Simple
http://quotes.nasdaq.com
Finance::*

AUTHOR

Josef Ezra, <jezra@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2006 by Josef Ezra

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.

NOTES

- currently (version 0.01) only supports 'nasdaq', 'amex', and 'nyse' - the returned data depends upon availability and format of external web sites. Needless to say, it is not guaranteed .

BUGS, REQUESTS, NICE IMPLEMENTATIONS, ETC.

Please email me about any of the above. I'll be more then happy to share interesting implementation of this module.