6 messages in com.googlegroups.google-finance-apisRe: Support for company data?
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Daniel MorrisonJun 26, 2008 8:54 pm 
Dion LoyJun 27, 2008 11:39 am 
rlumleyJun 27, 2008 9:05 pm 
Dion Loy (Google)Jun 28, 2008 8:20 am 
rlumleyJun 30, 2008 9:22 am 
Dion Loy (Google)Jul 8, 2008 12:27 pm 
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Subject:Re: Support for company data?Actions...
From:rlumley (ral@gmail.com)
Date:Jun 30, 2008 9:22:27 am
List:com.googlegroups.google-finance-apis

You may not be able to comment on this but what are the legal issues if I screen scrape the data I need from the Google Finance pages?

On Jun 28, 11:20 am, "Dion Loy (Google)" <dloy+gro@google.com> wrote:

We would love to expose that data in API form. Unfortunately the companies that provide us with the industry/sector categorizations and fundamental data do not allow us to redistribute that in an API =(.

What we can redistribute in an API consumable way is Google Finance generated content, or content generated through our algorithms, not from a 3rd party provider. These include company categorization of news and blogs (through the RSS feed links you see on the page), or your own portfolio data.

(That's not to say that we won't continue to push on our providers to open up as much data as possible).

On Jun 27, 9:05 pm, rlumley <ral@gmail.com> wrote:

I actually have the same question. I'd like to be able to retrieve information like the INDUSTRY and SECTOR of a stock. This info is already on the Google Finance page for each stock and would be useful in the api.  Other examples would be the info at the top of a stock's Google Finance page like Mkt Cap, PE, F PE, Dividend Yield, EPS, Beta.

I think having this kind of data opens up many possibilities for analyzing the composition of a portfolio.

Thanks, Ross

On Jun 27, 2:39 pm, Dion Loy <dloy+gro@google.com> wrote:

Hi Daniel,

What specific company data were you looking for?  Some of the data is provided by third parties, and as such have certain data redistribution restrictions.

Thanks!

On Jun 26, 8:54 pm, Daniel Morrison <dan@collectiveidea.com> wrote:

Is there any plan to support querying and searching detailed company data via the API?

It seems very stock-centric, but it would be great to get the