OK, I admit I cannot live without Bloglines.

I read news, technical publications, and friend blogs everyday on my Bloglines page. Almost everything has feed these days and it’s just damn convenient to be able to have-it-all in a single place.

Well, almost ...

One of the strangest thing keeps knocking my head is that there’s no stock quote feed (or at least I’m not aware of). There are a lot of web site for you to check the current stock quote, but none of them provide a feed. All I want is a simple feed of stock quote so I can read it on Bloglines once a day (or maybe once a week). I don’t want to maintain a portfolio on a financial portal site and have to manually log in everyday just to learn the current stock quote.

Luckily, someone has a solution: Yahoo stock to RSS converter. It’s a PHP script which parses Yahoo’s stock quote data to generate a feed. Simply put it on a PHP supported server and you get a personal stock quote feed for your own needs (there are quite a few parameters which let you tune the generated RSS content).

Since I’m using it with Bloglines, I have modified it a little bit to fit Bloglines’ interface. The original version makes Bloglines treat each quote update as a new entry. That ends up generating lots of entries for each stock (Yahoo’s stock quote updates every half an hour) and annoys me since I only care about the most current quote. Here’s the modified version (download and rename it): stockrss