or VBA) for getting web data? I'm creating a financial application where I have to parse data from the web...
1. Initially, I used Web Query (with VBA) in Excel becuase it was simple. But it runs too slow (because I needed to download approx 10 tables from Yahoo Finance web pages).
2. So, now I'm thinking about C++. I know C++, but I don't really know how to use C++ for extracting and parsing data from web pages. Does anyone have any suggestions about whether there are any libraries that I can use to simplify the parsing and connection process?... Ideally, I'd want to replicate the Excel Web Query functionality using C++, and I'm hoping to achieve the same functionality in C++, but with faster program execution (because Web Query is too slow). So, do you know any code for parsing web pages (esp. getting data from tables within web pages).
Also, on this topic, has anyone else used C++ for extracting financial data from tables on the web? (Or does everyone mainly use Excel Web Query?) If you have used C++ for web data, were you able to get faster extraction time versus Web Query? (because this is what I'm looking for)
Thanks!
1. Initially, I used Web Query (with VBA) in Excel becuase it was simple. But it runs too slow (because I needed to download approx 10 tables from Yahoo Finance web pages).
2. So, now I'm thinking about C++. I know C++, but I don't really know how to use C++ for extracting and parsing data from web pages. Does anyone have any suggestions about whether there are any libraries that I can use to simplify the parsing and connection process?... Ideally, I'd want to replicate the Excel Web Query functionality using C++, and I'm hoping to achieve the same functionality in C++, but with faster program execution (because Web Query is too slow). So, do you know any code for parsing web pages (esp. getting data from tables within web pages).
Also, on this topic, has anyone else used C++ for extracting financial data from tables on the web? (Or does everyone mainly use Excel Web Query?) If you have used C++ for web data, were you able to get faster extraction time versus Web Query? (because this is what I'm looking for)
Thanks!