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ticker_on_localhost
require 'sinatra'
require 'httparty'
require 'json'
require 'nokogiri'
get '/' do
response = HTTParty.get('http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=AAPL')
dom = Nokogiri::HTML(response.body)
span = dom.xpath("//span[@id='yfs_l84_aapl']").first
price = span.content
p "The current price of AAPL is $#{price}"
end
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