'''Returns a data frame containing minute data for the given ticker over the given interval'''
r = requests.get('+ticker+'&i=119&p='+period+'&f=d,o,h,l,c,v')
split = r.text.split('\n')
df = []
for word in split[7:]:
df.append(word.split(','))
data = DataFrame(df, columns = ['DATE','CLOSE','HIGH','LOW','OPEN','VOLUME'], dtype = 'float').dropna()
for i in range(len(data.DATE)):
data.DATE.ix[i] = data.DATE.ix[i].replace('a','')
for i in range(len(data.DATE)):
data.DATE.ix[i] = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(int(data.DATE.ix[i])).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')