Search stock symbol in google finance

Question

I'm trying to verify stock ticker through google finance. For example: when I type in "IBEX", I'm expecting Google finance comes back with the second choice not the first one. How can I archive this?

ticker = 'IBEX'    
url="https://www.google.com/finance?q={}".format(ticker)

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 13 '17 at 01:43

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The correct ticker is LON:IBEX, which you need to urlencode to LON%3AIBEX

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answered Jun 13 '17 at 01:43

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LON:IBEX is the final result I will parse from html. Now the problem is: google try to match my input with name or ticker. I only want google to match it with ticker. – xudesheng Jun 13 '17 at 01:55
You can parse that "third" column, right? Something like `col3 + ":" + col1`? – OneCricketeer Jun 13 '17 at 01:56
I can't fix Google search for you, sorry. – OneCricketeer Jun 13 '17 at 01:57

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 16 '17 at 08:29

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This issue eventually is solved by using selenium. Both Firefox driver and PhantomJS work very well. With selenium, I don't need to worry about Google's limitation either on how many requests you can submit in short term.

answered Jun 16 '17 at 08:29

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Search stock symbol in google finance

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