I am working on a ruby application using your findings.
Just tonight I made it initiate a curl connect to the streamerapi, pipe it to a file, tail the file and reformat the data.

Currently i am just cutting the wright peaces of data the api send. This is not a fancy way to do it so I would like to know if you found a nice way to string replace the data to format it in proper JSON?

I tried some diferente approaches with libcurl in c and c++ but apparently there is some problem with the library regarding keep-alive servers and while it connects to the the serve, after receiving the header it assumes the connection is closed. Any different experience from you?

After reading what underdog discovered about Yahoo Finance’s streamerapi I decided to get try to the data directly into an HTML page in IE8. Go to Yahoo finance and with IE8’s debugger set a breakpoint in the yfs_concat.js file on the loadU…