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//the most simple http client: | |
//http://nodejs.org/api.html#http-client-183 | |
//dependencies | |
var http = require('http') //http module | |
, sys = require('sys'); //some node core utils | |
//setup the request (this is something like curl...) | |
var httpclient = http.createClient( 80, 'streamerapi.finance.yahoo.com' ) | |
, page = "/streamer/1.0?s=AAPL,USD=X&o=AAPL,DELL,^DJI,^IXIC,^GSPC,^TYX,^RUT&k=a00,a50,b00,b60,c10,g00,h00,j10,l10,p20,t10,v00,z08,z09&j=c10,j10,l10,p20,t10,v00&r=0&marketid=us_market&callback=parent.yfs_u1f&mktmcb=parent.yfs_mktmcb&gencallback=parent.yfs_gencb"; | |
//the request | |
var request = httpclient.request( 'GET', page | |
, {'host': 'streamerapi.finance.yahoo.com'} | |
, {'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8' } | |
, {'Accept-Language': 'en-us,en;q=0.5'} | |
, {'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip,deflate'} | |
, {'Accept-Charset': 'ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7'} | |
, {'Keep-Alive': '115'} | |
, {'Connection': 'keep-alive'} | |
, {'Referer': 'http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=aapl'}); //the request header we are sending. | |
request.end(); | |
//listening for the response | |
request.on('response', function (response) { | |
console.log('STATUS: ' + response.statusCode); //print to console | |
console.log('HEADERS: ' + JSON.stringify(response.headers)); | |
response.setEncoding('utf8'); | |
response.on('data', function (chunk) { | |
console.log('BODY: ' + chunk); | |
}); | |
}); |
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