I'm looking for a free API which I can use to retrieve the stock market's top gainers and top losers for the current day. I've checked out Google and Yahoo's API's and they don't seem to do this. I can get price quotes on specific stocks, but nothing about top gainers or losers. Does anyone know of an API that does this?
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No, I'm looking for a web API. – Brandon Montgomery Feb 28 '12 at 13:46
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Did you ever find an answer to this? https://www.alphavantage.co does seem to have good API's but not sure if they have the exact one you are looking for (I am looking for the same thing too) – Srayan Guhathakurta Aug 07 '18 at 20:29
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Use Google's Finance API. This URL gets the stock information for the end day results of a market between two given dates. Check every market and compare the data appropriately.
http://finance.google.co.uk/finance/historical?q=LON:VOD&startdate=Mar+14+2013&enddate=Mar+15+2013&output=csv
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In the stock market, "top gainers and losers" means "tell me what stocks gained the most and what stocks lost the most." Data on a market as a whole is probably not what the original asker wanted. (I initially voted this down, but I think your interpretation was reasonable if you haven't spent a lot of time talking to traders, so I undid my downvote.) – Tom Boutell Apr 08 '17 at 17:49