Class: NasdaqQuery::DividendHistory

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
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Defined in:
lib/nasdaq_query/dividend_history.rb

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.for_symbol(sym) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/nasdaq_query/dividend_history.rb', line 6

def self.for_symbol(sym)
  doc = Nokogiri::HTML(`curl -s 'http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/#{sym.downcase}/dividend-history'`)
  rows = doc.xpath("//table[@class='dataGrid']/tr")
  rows.shift # skip the header row
  entries = rows.map do |row|
    tds = row.xpath(".//td")
    { 
      :ex_eff_date      => begin; Date.strptime(tds[0].xpath(".//span").text, "%m/%d/%Y"); rescue; nil; end,
      :type             => tds[1].text,
      :cash_amt         => tds[2].xpath(".//span").text.to_f,
      :declaration_date => begin; Date.strptime(tds[3].xpath(".//span").text, "%m/%d/%Y"); rescue; nil; end,
      :record_date      => begin; Date.strptime(tds[4].xpath(".//span").text, "%m/%d/%Y"); rescue; nil; end,
      :payment_date     => begin; Date.strptime(tds[5].xpath(".//span").text, "%m/%d/%Y"); rescue; nil; end
    }
  end
end