Configure Stockbrowser

Stockbrowser is a program with which stock quotes can be downloaded on a daily basis. The quotes can be fetched from different websites, without the need of a subscription. The quotes are being read from the page and saved into the program. Before you can start downloading the quotes, you first need to 'tell' the program from which source the data must come.

Telling the program which source to use is done with a file with the exact locations in it. In the download section of this page such a file can be downloaded. The file is available through investment tools, stockbrowser, sources_personal.txt.

Other files can be downloaded from the website where the program is available. A forum is also available on this page. In the links section of this website you can find a link to this website.

When you have downloaded a file with the download sources in it, it can be put in the folder in which you installed Stockbrowser (usually C:\Program Files\StockBrowser). Some so called 'definition files' are already available right after the installation of the program. The files that are available right after install are mostly outdated, so it is better to use more up-to-date files which can be downloaded as discussed before.

When the downloaded 'definition' file is being put into the Stockbrowser directory, it must be activated. You can do this by changing the file 'sources.txt'. This file contains all used definition files. All unused files can be removed from this file or deactivated (by adding "##" in front of the line). To activate the file 'sources_personal.txt' a line has to be added to the file. The following line can be used:

#INCLUDE sources_personal.txt

The sources from which the quotes can be downloaded, are activated.

Next, the data which is available on the page must be declared. This is done in the file 'definitions.ini'. For example, this file contains the quote information.

When this is done, the definitions can be read in to Stockbrowser. Open Stockbrowser and click in the menu on File > Reread Download Sources.

The definitions are now available in Stockbrowser, which can be seen in the window 'download groups'.

The definitions which have been read in, are shown in this window.