title: How to lookup an index in Yahoo's stock API
body: <p>I'm using Yahoo's stock API to get stock quotes, <a href="http://www.gummy-stuff.org/Yahoo-data.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">as described here</a>.</p>
  <p>Basically, I just assemble a link like this:</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p><a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=DOW+MSFT+AAPL+GOOG&amp;f=snl1" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=DOW+MSFT+AAPL+GOOG&amp;f=snl1</a></p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>which'll give me a list of the current price for those stocks (DOW, MSFT, AAPL, GOOG).</p>
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  <p>All's nice and dandy, but I'd also like to get the info for the NASDAQ and S&amp;P 500 Indices, but I have no idea what to use as the symbol for those.</p>
  <p>I tried all of these:</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>NASDAQ</p>
  <p>INDEXNASDAQ</p>
  <p>INDEXNASDAQ:.IXIC</p>
  <p>INDEXNASDAQ.IXIC</p>
  <p>IXIC</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>to no avail.</p>
  <p>It seems like I have the whole idea flawed (I don't really know much about finance).</p>
  <p>Can anyone help me with this?</p>