Stock Price

Example on how to get stock price information from yahoo.finance

HTML

<div id='result'></div>

JavaScript

function getData() {
    var url = "http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql";
    var data = encodeURIComponent("select * from yahoo.finance.quotes where symbol in ('HPQ')");

    $.getJSON(url, 'q=' + data + "&format=json&diagnostics=true&env=http://datatables.org/alltables.env")
        .done(function (data) {
        $("#result").text("HP Price: " + data.query.results.quote.LastTradePriceOnly);
    })
        .fail(function (jqxhr, textStatus, error) {
        var err = textStatus + ", " + error;
            $("#result").text('Request failed: ' + err);
    });
}

getData();