Finwin News (SymbolNews)

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Requests:

Headlines

Symbol News

Types:

·Query

·Story

·Table

·SymbolXML

·StoryXML

Category News

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Sample Code:

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SymbolNews (SymbolXML)

SymbolNews Type=Query returns a standard verbose XML packet with a node containing each of the columns outlined in "query" as child nodes, and are list below:

Headlines - Usually one, but sometimes 2 or 3 headlines in a list separated by a piping sign ( | ). If there is more than one, the first headline is the main header and subsequent headlines are subheaders.
Source - An abbreviation of the news source. IW = Internet Wire, DTN = DTN Market Access NewsRoom, PZ = Prime Zone, BW = BizWire, PR = PR News Wire, AP = AP on-line news, BTU = BTU Energy News.
Title - included for backward compatibility. This is the first Headline.
TimeStamp - The date and time the story was filed.
Story - Full text of the story.
Story_id - The storynumber. You can use this to story and retrieve the story again if you wish.
Related Symbols - A list of Symbols that were found in this story that also has news stories related to them.
Related Keywords - A list of keywords that have other stories relate to them. These words are usually extracted from the Title
Date_line - This is a string-formatted date line take from the published story, rather than stored from when the story was filed (as in timestamp).
CoCity - (if applicable) the city of the company that is the subject of the story.
CompanyName - (if applicable) the full name of the Company that is the subject of the story.
CoState - (if applicable) the state of the company that is the subject of the story.
CoZip - (if applicable) the zip code of the company that is the subject of the story.

Required Parameters

URL = http://www.finwin.com/processct/processnewstag.cfm Username = myUsername
Password = myPassword
Id = 1183
Request = SymbolNews
Type = SymbolXML
Symbol = MSFT

Optional Parmeters

*Queryname = Stories
Rowcount = 1 - max of 5
* Will work only when using Cold Fusion with Finwin's custom tags

Example XML Packet

Symbol News Symbol XML

Cold Fusion Example

       <cf_finwinnews
	request="SymbolNews"
	type="symbolxml"
	queryname="story"
	symbol="msft"
	rowcount="1"
	username="myusername"
	password="mypassword"
	id="1183">

ASP Example

Dim content, intRowCount 
intRowCount = Request.Form("RowCount")

if intRowCount = "" 
then
  intRowCount = "5"
end if
  
Request_POST = 	1
Set HttpObj  = Server.CreateObject("SOFTWING.AspTear")
FinwinURL 	 = "Http://www.finwin.com/processCT/ProcessNewsTag.cfm"

PostData = "username=MyUserName&password=mypassword&id=1183&request=symbolnews&rowcount=" & 
intRowCount & "&type=symbolxml&symbol=msft"

content = HttpObj.Retrieve(FinwinURL, Request_POST,PostData, "", "")
Response.write(content)

SymbolNews (Type = SymbolXML) Example:

(RTTNews) - Symbio Chosen By Microsoft As Microsoft Mediaroom Set-top Box Integration, Testing Partner