So i've been trying to get a program working where I get info from google finance regarding different stock stats. So far I have not been able to get information out of spans. As of now I have hardcoded direct access to the apple stock. Link to Apple stock: https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AAAPL&ei=NgItWIG1GIftsAHCn4zIAg
What i can't understand is that I receive correct output when I trying it in the chrome console with the following command:
$x("//*[@id=\"appbar\"]//div//div//div//span");
This is my current code in Visual studio 2015 with Html Agility Pack installed(I suspect a fault in currDocNodeCompanyName):
class StockDataAccess
{
HtmlWeb web= new HtmlWeb();
private List<string> testList;
public void FindStock()
{
var histDoc = web.Load("https://www.google.com/finance/historical?q=NASDAQ%3AAAPL&ei=q9IsWNm4KZXjsAG-4I7oCA.html");
var histDocNode = histDoc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//*[@id=\"prices\"]//table//tr//td");
var currDoc = web.Load("https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AAAPL&ei=CdcsWMjNCIe0swGd3oaYBA.html");
var currDocNodeCurrency = currDoc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//*[@id=\"ref_22144_elt\"]//div//div");
var currDocNodeCompanyName = currDoc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//*[@id=\"appbar\"]//div//div//div//span");
var histDocText = histDocNode.Select(node => node.InnerText);
var currDocCurrencyText = currDocNodeCurrency.Select(node => node.InnerText);
var currDocCompanyName = currDocNodeCompanyName.Select(node => node.InnerText);
List<String> result = new List<string>(histDocText.Take(6));
result.Add(currDocCurrencyText.First());
result.Add(currDocCompanyName.Take(2).ToString());
testList = result;
}
public List<String> ReturnStock()
{
return testList;
}
}
I have been trying the Xpath expression [text] and received an output that i can work with when using the chrome console but not in VS. I have also been experimenting with a foreach-loop, a few suggested it to others.
class StockDataAccess
{
HtmlWeb web= new HtmlWeb();
private List<string> testList;
public void FindStock()
{
///same as before
var currDoc = web.Load("https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AAAPL&ei=CdcsWMjNCIe0swGd3oaYBA.html");
HtmlNodeCollection currDocNodeCompanyName = currDoc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//*[@id=\"appbar\"]//div//div//div//span");
///Same as before
List <string> blaList = new List<string>();
foreach (HtmlNode x in currDocNodeCompanyName)
{
blaList.Add(x.InnerText);
}
List<String> result = new List<string>(histDocText.Take(6));
result.Add(currDocCurrencyText.First());
result.Add(blaList[1]);
result.Add(blaList[2]);
testList = result;
}
public List<String> ReturnStock()
{
return testList;
}
}
I would really appreciate if anyone could point me in the right direction.