Try the following query:
select Symbol,Name,Volume,Ask from yahoo.finance.quotes where symbol = 'GOOG'
Rest call: http://tinyurl.com/kmwn5ke
EDIT
YQL documentation for syntax of SELECT in YQL here.
Question
The yahoo finance api YQL query is great for getting stock data, but it returns so many things, most of which I am not interested in.
A basic query like,
select * from yahoo.finance.quotes where symbol = 'GOOG'
returns every parameter available, some of which are empty.
All that I want is 'symbol', 'name', 'volume', and 'ask'. So how do I restrict the results to just this data?
I've tried:
select * from yahoo.finance.quotes where symbol = 'GOOG' and columns = 'Symbol,Name,Volume,Ask'
But the results are null.
Solution
Try the following query:
select Symbol,Name,Volume,Ask from yahoo.finance.quotes where symbol = 'GOOG'
Rest call: http://tinyurl.com/kmwn5ke
EDIT
YQL documentation for syntax of SELECT in YQL here.