Getting stock news data from google in R

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I can use quantmod to get historical data and close-to-realtime quotes for stocks. I can also use quantmod to get financials data from Google. Are there any existing R packages that would let me grab Google's news feed for a given stock?

If not, is there a package for reading and parsing RSS feeds in R?

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 21 '11 at 20:19

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Sure, RSS is after all XML, so use the XML package.

answered Apr 21 '11 at 20:19

Dirk Eddelbuettel

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And look here for some good nuggets of info on using said package: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1395528/scraping-html-tables-into-r-data-frames-using-the-xml-package – Chase Apr 21 '11 at 20:29

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 21 '11 at 20:47

There's also a (not yet on CRAN) package that does some of the nitty gritty of parsing RSS feeds (and Atom) for you - nothing fancy, just some of the basic cleaning, normalization between the RSS and Atom spec, etc.

You can grab it from https://github.com/noahhl/r-does-rss

(full disclosure, I wrote it)

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:14

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I wrote my own function to do this, using XML and xts. I posted it as a question on SO, because I think it could be improved.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:14

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answered Apr 23 '11 at 01:45

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Getting stock news data from google in R

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