Is the best way to download stocks from Yahoo using Excel and VBA?

(Last Updated On: October 20, 2010)

Is the best way to download stocks from Yahoo using  Excel and VBA?

This forum item was posted:

http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/showthread.php?t=66516&page=2

This is also from Lokesh Madan on Linked In:

Sub Auto_Open()

MenuBars(xlWorksheet).Menus.Add _
Caption:=”Stock_Info”

Set menuitemadded = MenuBars(xlWorksheet).Menus(“Stock_Info”).MenuItems _
.Add(Caption:=”Template”, _
OnAction:=”add_sheets”, _
before:=1)

Set menuitemadded = MenuBars(xlWorksheet).Menus(“Stock_Info”).MenuItems _
.Add(Caption:=”Download”, _
OnAction:=”download”, _
before:=2)
End Sub

Sub Auto_Close()
MenuBars(xlWorksheet).Menus(“Stock_Info”).Delete
End Sub

In module 2….

Sub add_sheets()
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Workbooks.Add
Worksheets(1).Activate
Worksheets(1).Name = (“Template”)
Application.DisplayAlerts = False
Worksheets(2).Delete
Worksheets(2).Delete
Range(“A1”).Select
ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = “Ticker”
Range(“B1”).Select
ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = “Start Date”
Range(“C1”).Select
ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = “End Date”
Range(“A1:C1”).Select
Selection.Font.Bold = True
With Selection.Interior
.ColorIndex = 37
.Pattern = xlSolid
End With
Selection.Borders(xlEdgeTop).LineStyle = xlNone
With Selection.Borders(xlEdgeBottom)
.LineStyle = xlContinuous
.Weight = xlThin
.ColorIndex = xlAutomatic
End With
Selection.Borders(xlEdgeRight).LineStyle = xlNone
Range(“A1:C1”).Select
Selection.Interior.ColorIndex = xlNone
With Selection.Interior
.ColorIndex = 15
.Pattern = xlSolid
End With
Columns(“A:C”).Select
With Selection
.HorizontalAlignment = xlCenter
End With
Range(“B2:C200”).Select
Selection.NumberFormat = “m/d/yy”
Range(“A1”).Select
Cells.Select
Cells.EntireColumn.AutoFit
Range(“A2”).Select

End Sub

Sub Download()
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Dim Sh As Worksheet
Dim Rng As Range
Dim Cell As Range
Dim Ticker As String
Dim StartDate As Date
Dim EndDate As Date
Dim a, b, c, d, e, f
Dim StrURL As String
Set Sh = Worksheets(“Template”)
Set Rng = Sh.Range(“A2:A” & Sh.Range(“A2”).End(xlDown).Row)
For Each Cell In Rng
Ticker = Cell.Value
StartDate = Cell.Offset(0, 1).Value
EndDate = Cell.Offset(0, 2).Value
a = Format(Month(StartDate) – 1, “00”) ‘ Month minus 1
b = Day(StartDate)
c = Year(StartDate)
d = Format(Month(EndDate) – 1, “00”)
e = Day(EndDate)
f = Year(EndDate)
StrURL = “URL; http://table.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv ?”
StrURL = StrURL & “s=” & Ticker & “&a=” & a & “&b=” & b
StrURL = StrURL & “&c=” & c & “&d=” & d & “&e=” & e
StrURL = StrURL & “&f=” & f & “&g=d&ignore=.csv”
ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets.Add.Name = Ticker
With ActiveSheet.QueryTables.Add(Connection:=StrURL, Destination:=Range(“A1”))
.FieldNames = True
.RowNumbers = False
.FillAdjacentFormulas = False
.PreserveFormatting = True
.RefreshOnFileOpen = False
.BackgroundQuery = True
.RefreshStyle = xlInsertDeleteCells
.SavePassword = False
.SaveData = True
.AdjustColumnWidth = True
.RefreshPeriod = 0
.WebSelectionType = xlAllTables
.WebFormatting = xlWebFormattingNone
.WebPreFormattedTextToColumns = True
.WebConsecutiveDelimitersAsOne = True
.WebSingleBlockTextImport = False
.WebDisableDateRecognition = False
.Refresh BackgroundQuery:=False
End With
Columns(“A:A”).TextToColumns Destination:=Range(“A1”), DataType:=xlDelimited, _
TextQualifier:=xlDoubleQuote, ConsecutiveDelimiter:=False, Tab:=True, _
Semicolon:=False, Comma:=True, Space:=False, Other:=False, FieldInfo _
:=Array(Array(1, 4), Array(2, 1), Array(3, 1), Array(4, 1), Array(5, 1), Array(6, 1), _
Array(7, 1))
Range(“A2”).Select
Range(Selection, Selection.End(xlDown)).NumberFormat = “d-mmm-yy”
Columns(“A:F”).EntireColumn.AutoFit
Next Cell
Sheets(“Template”).Select
End Sub

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