How to lookup an index in Yahoo's stock API

Question

I'm using Yahoo's stock API to get stock quotes, as described here.

Basically, I just assemble a link like this:

http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=DOW+MSFT+AAPL+GOOG&f=snl1

which'll give me a list of the current price for those stocks (DOW, MSFT, AAPL, GOOG).

All's nice and dandy, but I'd also like to get the info for the NASDAQ and S&P 500 Indices, but I have no idea what to use as the symbol for those.

I tried all of these:

NASDAQ

INDEXNASDAQ

INDEXNASDAQ:.IXIC

INDEXNASDAQ.IXIC

IXIC

to no avail.

It seems like I have the whole idea flawed (I don't really know much about finance).

Can anyone help me with this?

Zorayr · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-01 04:54:48Z

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Use the same symbols you see on the corresponding Yahoo finance page.

Nasdaq = ^IXIC

S&P = ^GSPC

Dow = ^DJI

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answered Feb 29, 2012 at 21:19

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Thanks. I didn't realize that the ^ was part of the symbol. Is that to denote that it's an index?

Seems that it is not available actually: stackoverflow.com/questions/3679870/…

would you know how I could look up the dow in Google's API?