My first attempt to make an utility, but where to get data !

I am a professional Java developer with more then 5 years of experience, I want to create some utilities and I need EOD/Historical data for BSE/NSE. I cant pay, it must be free. Can any one tell me how can I get started. What I need to know is where to get the data (plz give links) and some resources which explains the structure/format of that data feed. If I create any useful utility I will be happy yo share it with traderji members.

Thanks

hi sri,

gr8!!!looking forward to utility from ur end......

u can try various data feeders like from Magikdata 2.0 ,esignal,truedataindia,market dataprovider etc ....most of them are gr8...

I use magikdata 2.0 its quite cheaply priced and provides good performance....u can give it a try.....

As I said in the first post, I can not pay, it must be completely free.
Currently I have no earnings from stock market

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This is not about paying/cost or money. When some one is looking for a free API it means he wants it free, there are no questions as why you want it free or why isn't he paying Re 500. Ofcourse you can suggest paid alternatives but cant blame his attitude.. This is how opensource things works.. when some one say he is looking for an opensource, he mean it.. there's no questions of attitude.

Thanks

pls register with getbhavcopy to get his utility to download the eods of nse and bse along with historical eods. it is absolutely free.

search the forum for the utility. his alias id total bankrupt.

Its there on NSE/BSE site.

http://www.nseindia.com/content/equities/eq_historicaldata.htm

http://www.bseindia.com/mktlive/bhavcopy.asp

Its easy bro...Get it from NSE\BSE directly.

I am also java dev and I have devloped whole portfolio manger and tech analysis s\w using data from these sites.

NSE provide the historical bhavcopy for last 2-3 years while bse gives for last 10 years.
THis is url for todays bhavcopy. THe naming format for historical BC is also same.
http://www.nseindia.com/content/historical/EQUITIES/2010/SEP/cm22SEP2010bhav.csv.zip

Gimme a shout if you need any help for this

BTW you can also get the realtime price from NSE. Not very clean way (Need to make one call per stock) but for list of upto 100 stocks it works fime with 15 sec interval.

PS: can you share the idea of your utility if possible.

It is availble in the websites of nse and bse. I have collected it from the site for last 2-3 years data from the site.