Python Fast Downloader - Financial Stock Market

Python is a dynamic object-oriented programming language that can be used for many kinds of software development. It offers strong support for integration with other languages and tools, comes with extensive standard libraries. Many Python programmers report substantial productivity gains and feel the language encourages the development of higher quality, more maintainable code.Python runs on Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, OS/2, Amiga, Palm Handhelds, and Nokia mobile phones. Python has also been ported to the Java and .NET virtual machines.

Functional Grouping:  Investment – Financial Market Data (Data-Mining)

Complexity/User Experience Category: Advanced/Dynamic

About Fast Downloader – Financial Stock Market Data

Fast Downloader – Financial Stock Market Data is written in Python, a platform independent program which allows you instantly download historical quotes of stocks, mutual funds and indices traded in world wide. It produces data output in a customizable ASCII format which makes it compatible with most spreadsheet and charting / technical analysis software packages like MetaStock, Omega TradeStation, Microsoft Excel and others.

A data-mining downloader that perform multi-thread downloading and updating 9,000 stocks data over 1 Gigabytes (GB) in an hour.