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I'm using Yahoo's stock API to get stock quotes, as described here.

Basically, I just assemble a link like this:

http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=DOW+MSFT+AAPL+GOOG&f=snl1

which'll give me a list of the current price for those stocks (DOW, MSFT, AAPL, GOOG).

All's nice and dandy, but I'd also like to get the info for the NASDAQ and S&P 500 Indices, but I have no idea what to use as the symbol for those.

I tried all of these:

NASDAQ

INDEXNASDAQ

INDEXNASDAQ:.IXIC

INDEXNASDAQ.IXIC

IXIC

to no avail.

It seems like I have the whole idea flawed (I don't really know much about finance).

Can anyone help me with this?

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Use the same symbols you see on the corresponding Yahoo finance page.

Nasdaq = ^IXIC

S&P = ^GSPC

Dow = ^DJI

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  • Thanks. I didn't realize that the `^` was part of the symbol. Is that to denote that it's an index? – MegaHit Feb 29 '12 at 21:21
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    Seems that it is not available actually: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3679870/yahoo-finance-csv-file-will-not-return-dow-jones-dji – Dave Kasper Feb 29 '12 at 21:39
  • would you know how I could look up the dow in [Google's API](http://www.google.com/ig/api?stock=goog)? – MegaHit Mar 01 '12 at 21:26
  • @MegaHit Dow works as well - http://finance.yahoo.com/webservice/v1/symbols/%5EDJI/quotes – Zorayr Sep 01 '15 at 04:54