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Finance-Quote-Hollywood-2
/ Finance::Quote::Hollywood

NAME

Finance::Quote::Hollywood - download Hollywood Stock Exchange quotes

SYNOPSIS

use Finance::Quote;
my $quoter = Finance::Quote->new ('-defaults', 'Hollywood');
my %quotes = $quoter->fetch('hollywood','EBANA','ZORRO');

DESCRIPTION

This module downloads stock quotes from the Hollywood Stock Exchange game

http://www.hsx.com

Using pages like

http://movies.hsx.com/servlet/SecurityDetail?symbol=EBANA

Both stars stock quotes and movie stock quotes can be fetched, under the symbols shown on the pages. The home page has a symbol search.

The HSX web site is for use under terms described

http://www.hsx.com/about/terms.htm

As of May 2008 it's for personal non-commercial enjoyment only. It's your responsibility to ensure your use of this module complies with those terms.

USAGE

This module is not in the Finance::Quote defaults, but can be loaded in the usual ways, either an environment variable

FQ_LOAD_QUOTELET="-defaults Hollywood"
export FQ_LOAD_QUOTELET

or in the quoter creation in your code

my $quoter = Finance::Quote->new ('-defaults', 'Hollywood');

The -defaults can be omitted if you don't want the standard modules, just Hollywood.

A single fetch method hollywood is provided, so for example with the sample chkshares.pl script from Finance::Quote

FQ_LOAD_QUOTELET="Hollywood" ./chkshares.pl hollywood EBANA

or in your own code

my %quotes = $quoter->fetch ('hollywood', 'EBANA');
print "last price ", $quotes{'EBANA','last'}, "\n";

Each symbol is a separate HTTP request, so there's no particular need to group them in a single fetch call.

FIELDS

The following fields are available

date isodate name status
last net volume
week_high   week_low   week_range
month_high  month_low  month_range
season_high season_low season_range
year_high   year_low   year_range
method copyright_url

status is a string "Active", "Halted" or "Inactive".

SEE ALSO

Finance::Quote, LWP

HOME PAGE

http://www.geocities.com/user42_kevin/finance-quote-hollywood/

LICENCE

Copyright 2008 Kevin Ryde

Finance-Quote-Hollywood is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version.

Finance-Quote-Hollywood is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Finance-Quote-Hollywood; see the file COPYING. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.