Implemented Auto Complete Symbol lookup

There NEEDS to be a function where the user can lookup a stock symbol at Yahoo finance.

Suggestion: Integrate this lookup function (same that can be found at Yahoo page):
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/885456/stock-ticker-symbol-lookup-api

 

You can use yahoo's symbol lookup like so:

http://d.yimg.com/autoc.finance.yah...llback=YAHOO.Finance.SymbolSuggest.ssCallback​

Where query is the company name.

You'll get something like this in return:

YAHOO.Finance.SymbolSuggest.ssCallback({"ResultSet":{"Query":"ya","Result":[{"symbol":"YHOO","name": "Yahoo! Inc.","exch": "NMS","type": "S","exchDisp":"NASDAQ"},{"symbol":"AUY","name": "Yamana Gold, Inc.","exch": "NYQ","type": "S","exchDisp":"NYSE"},{"symbol":"YZC","name": "Yanzhou Coal Mining Co. Ltd.","exch": "NYQ","type": "S","exchDisp":"NYSE"},{"symbol":"YRI.TO","name": "YAMANA GOLD INC COM NPV","exch": "TOR","type": "S","exchDisp":"Toronto"},{"symbol":"8046.TW","name": "NAN YA PRINTED CIR TWD10","exch": "TAI","type": "S","exchDisp":"Taiwan"},{"symbol":"600319.SS","name": "WEIFANG YAXING CHE 'A'CNY1","exch": "SHH","type": "S","exchDisp":"Shanghai"},{"symbol":"1991.HK","name": "TA YANG GROUP","exch": "HKG","type": "S","exchDisp":"Hong Kong"},{"symbol":"1303.TW","name": "NAN YA PLASTIC TWD10","exch": "TAI","type": "S","exchDisp":"Taiwan"},{"symbol":"0294.HK","name": "YANGTZEKIANG","exch": "HKG","type": "S","exchDisp":"Hong Kong"},{"symbol":"YAVY","name": "Yadkin Valley Financial Corp.","exch": "NMS","type": "S","exchDisp":"NASDAQ"}]}})​

Which is JSON and very easy to work with.

 

I asked for the symbol lookup in another thread and got that answer:

In the thread you state:

Am I correct to asume that symbol lookup will be included? And if, what is the estimated time frame for it?

 

Thank you.

 

Thank you!