Download news data for companies listed in US Stock market.
The data is downloaded from a RSS news feed provided by Google, it is then parsed then inserted into a QuantShare custom database.
This RSS news feed item create a database whose name is 'google_news'.
This database contains 3 columns.
The data/time column: contains the date and the time at which the news was released.
The title column: contains the news title.
The description column: contains a description of the news.
Each ticker symbol has its own news feed.
(http://rss_news_feed_from_google/?q=[ticker name])
Example: Symbol AA
Date: 09/07/2009 11:21
Title: BEFORE THE BELL -2: US HOT STOCKS TO WATCH
Description: BEFORE THE BELL -2: US HOT STOCKS TO WATCH FXstreet.com...
After the downloader gets some content from the RSS stream, open the database editor, choose the 'google_news' database and a symbol to see the downloaded data for that particular symbol.
You can of course display the data with the database viewer plug-in.
You can also plot the news data on a chart or use it to create trading rules.
