README for Finance::YahooQuote This is a Perl 5 module that will pull one or more stock quotes from Yahoo! Finance. It was written by Dj Padzensky , and is now maintained by Dirk Eddelbuettel . See CHANGES.old for DJ's log of changes, and ChangeLog for changes since Dirk took over. Once the archive has been unpacked, the following steps are needed to build and install the module (to be done in the directory which contains the Makefile.PL) perl Makefile.PL make Two simple tests have been provided. Please note that the second test may fail if your internet connection is down, requires a proxy or if Yahoo! is down. That said, make test can be used to test the integrity of the module prior to installation. If the build and test succeed, install it with the following command: make install An example script is installed as 'yahooquote'. Two more example scripts are include to help examine available services at different Yahoo! servers, and to examine the possible mapping between stock symbols for a given company. For Debian GNU/Linux, a package is available via $ apt-get install libfinance-yahooquote-perl For Windows users, ActiveState does maintain a pre-build package that can be installed with their ppm tool Please send questions, comments, etc. to Dirk Eddelbuettel .