How do I grab figures from a url and place them in my page?

Question

http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/ has several figures that I would like to display on my html page.

If I just have a div and say I want it to display how much percent some financial market has changed, how to I get the div to display whatever figure is published to Bloomberg? So that whenever I reload my website the most up to date figure from Bloomberg is displayed in plain text in my div?

So instead of

<div>0.05%</div>

I have

<div>(some code here to pull the correct figure from bloomberg)</div>

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 22 '12 at 01:29

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Bloomberg has an API that you can use to get their market data for free:

http://www.openbloomberg.com/open-api/

Now, you can adopt Bloomberg’s market data interfaces without cost or restriction.

answered Jun 22 '12 at 01:29

Alex W

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 22 '12 at 01:29

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What you are asking is called data parsing and it is pretty common request. If you want to do it using PHP, PHP Simple HTML DOM parser or phpQuery provide plenty of examples.

answered Jun 22 '12 at 01:29

Gajus

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How do I grab figures from a url and place them in my page?

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