Working iterative api query applied over a list of stock symbols. Read from file in scheme, not yet so for perl.

.gitignore

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 .*.sw*
+backup_*
+test.out
+test.scm

stocklist.conf

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+VIU.TO VCN.TO VUN.TO

stockminder.pl

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+#!/bin/env perl
+
+# Raw uri https://www.alphavantage.co/query?function=TIME_SERIES_DAILY&symbol=VBU.TO&apikey=EC4C0NRKZAK1Q2UG
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use HTTP::Request;
+
+my $api_uri = "https://www.alphavantage.co/";
+my $api_key = "EC4C0NRKZAK1Q2UG";
+
+my @symbols = 
+(
+		"VIU.TO",
+		"VCN.TO",
+		"VUN.TO"
+);
+
+my %functions = 
+(
+		"timeseries_intraday", "TIME_SERIES_INTRADAY",
+		"timeseries_daily", "TIME_SERIES_DAILY",
+		"timeseries_daily_adj", "TIME_SERIES_DAILY_ADJUSTED",
+		"timeseries_weekly", "TIME_SERIES_WEEKLY",
+		"timeseries_weekly_adj", "TIME_SERIES_WEEKLY_ADJUSTED",
+		"timeseries_monthly", "TIME_SERIES_MONTHLY",
+		"timeseries_monthly_adj", "TIME_SERIES_MONTHLY_ADJUSTED"
+);
+
+foreach my $stock_symbol (@symbols)
+{
+print 	$api_uri,
+	"query?".
+	"function=",
+	$functions{'timeseries_daily'},
+	"&symbol=",
+	$stock_symbol,
+	"&apikey=",
+	$api_key,
+	"\n";
+}

stockminder.scm

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 #!/bin/env gxi
 
-(import :std/net/request)
 
-#|(print (request-text
-   (http-get "https://apidojo-yahoo-finance-v1.p.rapidapi.com/market/v2/get-quotes?symbols=AMD%252CIBM%252CAAPL&region=US"
-      headers: '( ("x-rapidapi-host" . "apidojo-yahoo-finance-v1.p.rapidapi.com")
-                  ("x-rapidapi-key" . "98c32048f8mshe6f4d8a686ddce9p18cc5ajsn8b8888e7e256") )
-   )
-) )
-(http-get "https://www.alphavantage.co/query?function=TIME_SERIES_DAILY&symbol=VBU.TO&apikey=EC4C0NRKZAK1Q2UG")
-(print "Hello, Asshole!")
-|#
+(import :std/net/request
+	:std/format
+	:std/xml
+	:std/text/json)
 
+#| Yahoo Finance Headers
+headers: '( ("x-rapidapi-host" . "apidojo-yahoo-finance-v1.p.rapidapi.com")
+            ("x-rapidapi-key" . "98c32048f8mshe6f4d8a686ddce9p18cc5ajsn8b8888e7e256") )
+|#
+; Declare the file from which we'll load our stockminder configuration
+; Things like stock symbols, favourite functions, timing preferences, etc.
+(define-values
+   (stockminder-config stocklist output-file)
+   (values
+      (open-input-file "stocklist.conf")
+; Initialize our stocklist so we can throw stuff in there after we parse
+; the config file.
+      `()
+      (open-output-file "test.out") ) )
+; The procedure we'll use to iterate through config values and add symbols
+; to our stocklist
+(define read-config (lambda (config-file)
+   (let read-loop ((config-chomp (read config-file)))
+      (if (eof-object? config-chomp)
+         (close-input-port config-file)
+         (and (set! stocklist (append stocklist `(,config-chomp)))
+            (read-loop (read config-file)) ) ) ) ))
+; Now the business end; parse the config file
+(read-config stockminder-config)
 
+(define-values
+   (api-function api-url api-key)
+   (values
+      "TIME_SERIES_DAILY"
+      "https://www.alphavantage.co/"
+      "EC4C0NRKZAK1Q2UG" ) )
 (let
-   ((stock-symbol "VCN.TO")
-   (api-function "TIME_SERIES_DAILY")
-   (api-key "EC4C0NRKZAK1Q2UG")
-   (api-url "https://www.alphavantage.co/") )
-
-   (print (request-text (http-get 
-       (string-join (list api-url "query?function=" api-function 
-       "&symbol=" stock-symbol "&apikey=" api-key) "" ) ))) )
+   ((stock-symbols stocklist))
+   (map (lambda (x) (display (string-append
+         api-url "query?function=" api-function "&symbol=" (symbol->string x) "&apikey=" api-key "\n")))
+      stock-symbols ) )