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JKB
08-03-2014, 07:29 AM
Hi folks!

I have a question, which is starting to bug me.
I have created a scraper that downloads the current "Market Movers" from yahoo - finance, but i noticed that some of the stocks that were listed (Today since it is sunday it is a fixed list because the market is closed, so it makes sense to take a look at the source code) are NOT in may spreadsheet.

I now have discovered that the name of the stock (or the percentage it has moved) is not a part of the source code!??! How is this possible???

The link to the page: finance.yahoo.com/stock-center/#mkt-movers (Look under "Market Movers", you can see it from the top of the page)

The stock which is displayed on the list is called SGMS, it has a percentage movement of 2.81% - But if i open the source code of the page and search for
"SGMS" or "2.81" i cannot find any of these two!

Does anybody by any chance know, how this is possible?

Cheers

JKB

westconn1
08-03-2014, 02:25 PM
i guess the table is filled by scripting after the page is loaded