Access Stock Quotes Realtime through Google Finance

googleFinance.py

import urllib2
import json
import time

# Form: http://digitalpbk.com/stock/google-finance-get-stock-quote-realtime 
class GoogleFinanceAPI:
    def __init__(self):
        self.prefix = "http://finance.google.com/finance/info?client=ig&q="
    
    def get(self,symbol,exchange):
        url = self.prefix+"%s:%s"%(exchange,symbol)
        u = urllib2.urlopen(url)
        content = u.read()
        
        obj = json.loads(content[3:])
        return obj[0]
        
        
if __name__ == "__main__":
    c = GoogleFinanceAPI()
    
    while 1:
        quote = c.get("MSFT","NASDAQ")
        print quote
        time.sleep(30)

curl http://finance.google.com/finance/info\?client\=ig\&q\=CSCO

// [
{
"id": "99624"
,"t" : "CSCO"
,"e" : "NASDAQ"
,"l" : "29.82"
,"l_fix" : "29.82"
,"l_cur" : "29.82"
,"s": "0"
,"ltt":"1:46PM EDT"
,"lt" : "Jul 19, 1:46PM EDT"
,"lt_dts" : "2016-07-19T13:46:16Z"
,"c" : "-0.09"
,"c_fix" : "-0.09"
,"cp" : "-0.30"
,"cp_fix" : "-0.30"
,"ccol" : "chr"
,"pcls_fix" : "29.91"
}
]

Unfortunately, this no longer works. Google removed this feature or at least relocated it to a new URL (unknown to me).

It no longer works. But I wonder why Google doesn't want to share the data with people.