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function to get stock price based on symbol
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| function getStockQuote(symbol) {const url = `https://finance.google.com/finance?q=${symbol}&output=json`got(url).then(response => {/* Must remove the first three characters of the Google finance text returned to parse JSON.*/const stock = JSON.parse(response.body.substr(3))const quote = stock[0]console.log(`${quote.t} ${quote.l} ${quote.c} (${quote.cp}%)`)}).catch(error => {console.log(error.response.body)})} |
//module.exports style
function getStockQuote(symbol) {const url = https://finance.google.com/finance?q=${symbol}&output=jsongot(url).then(response => {/* Must remove the first three characters of the Google finance text returned to parse JSON.*/const stock = JSON.parse(response.body.substr(3))const quote = stock[0]console.log(${quote.t} ${quote.l} ${quote.c} (${quote.cp}%))}).catch(error => {console.log(error.response.body)})}
getStockQuote: getStockQuote,
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export async function getStockQuote(symbol) {const url =
https://finance.google.com/finance?q=${symbol}&output=jsongot(url).then(response => {/* Must remove the first three characters of the Google finance text returned to parse JSON.*/const stock = JSON.parse(response.body.substr(3))const quote = stock[0]console.log(${quote.t} ${quote.l} ${quote.c} (${quote.cp}%))}).catch(error => {console.log(error.response.body)})}