Fetch goldprice in realtime ?

[MrMiyagi]

If I wanted to fetch the goldprice in real time(or between 10minutes) and publish it on my site. How could I do it?

For example from here:

http://money.cnn.com/data/commodities/

Or some chart like this:

http://markets.ft.com/markets/commodities.asp

Prototype framework has an Ajax.periodical.updater that might be useful for bringing content from another site between intervals of time... but how can I read a specific div content/table value from other site and bring the value to my site...

Thanks for all answers!

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

It would be best to sign up for a service that offers this, rather than simply scraping someone else's web site.

I say this because if you go down the scraping route, the site you use has no obligation to serve you data, and could withdraw it, or even intentionally serve you incorrect data (I'd do this if I owned a site like that and found it was being scraped).

That aside, you might need to go via a server-side proxy if you're reading data from a website that is not on your domain.

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