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The script below will download stock chart from the stock quotes you entered and stock it locally for your viewing pleasure.
You can modify the script to download the chart base on your preferences, e.g. you can select weekly or daily chart, you can also select candlestick, bar or line chart to download. You can modify this script to suit to your own needs.
For technical chart trader, they often go through stock chart every day to look for certain pattern. They can either go to any of the website that provide online chart and scroll through it one by one, or they can download the stock chart to their local PC. Scrolling through stock chart locally definitely much faster than browsing it through on the website, furthermore, you can even view it offline.
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There are many website you can download snap stock chart, the following is the example of the stock chart downloaded from the website.

Let’s take a look of the parameters you can use to specify the type of chart you can download, the URL are as follow:
http://charts.marketcenter.com/cis/qc?cont=msft&period=d&size=550x300&bartype=candle&bardensity=HIGH
‘http://charts.marketcenter.com/cis/qc?cont=’ – The URL to download stock chart, you can enter your stock ticker after the equal sign.
period – you can enter ‘d’ for daily chart or ‘w’ for weekly chart
size – The size of the chart you want, specify the height and weight in pixel
bartype – type of chart, options given are ‘candle’, ‘line’, ‘bar’ or ‘area’
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