PowerShell - Get Stock Quote Information

Sun, 15 Dec 2013 13:29:17 +0000

The below script makes use of a webservice hosted by webserviceX.net and provides stock quote information.

<#
.Synopsis
 Retrieve stock information
.DESCRIPTION
 Retrieve stock information 
.PARAMETER Symbol
 Stock symbol of one or more companies
.EXAMPLE
 Get-StockInfo -Symbol MSFT,INTC
.LINK
 
.NOTES
 Version 1.0, by Alex Verboon
#>
 
[CmdletBinding()]
Param(
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true,
 ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true,
 HelpMessage= 'Stock Symbol for the company')]
 [String[]]$Symbol
)

begin{}
process{

if ([string]::IsNullOrEmpty($Symbol))
 {Write-Output "You must provide a Symbol"
 Exit}
 
ForEach ($stock in $Symbol)
 {
 [xml][/xml]$sq = Invoke-WebRequest -uri http://www.webservicex.net/stockquote.asmx/GetQuote?symbol=$stock
 $sqdetail = [xml][/xml]$sq.DocumentElement.'#text' 
 $sqdetail.StockQuotes.stocK
 }
}

End{}

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PowerShell - Get Stock Quote Information