Monday 14 November 2016

Scrap out current stoke price of any company using Python and BeautifulSoup

Web scrapping to find out current stoke price of any company with BeautifulSoup.

URL used : http://finance.yahoo.com

Dig out web data.

Part 2:

This tutorial is latest and it will work till atleast 6 month .

Say i want to know current stoke price of facebook,com , my this script will do it within seconds.



current stoke price of facebook is 115 . Lets see how my script find it .


import requests
import os
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
r0=raw_input('Enter the company you wana know latest stok price:\n')
r=requests.get('https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%s?p=%s'%(r0,r0))
file=BeautifulSoup(r.content)
g_data=file.find_all("span",{"class":"Fw(b) D(ib) Fz(36px) Mb(-4px)"})
os.system('clear')
print 'Current stok price of %s'%r0,'is: ',g_data[0].text







Now i will see the stock price of Tesla Motors .







Lets see how my script responses :




Nice its working fine . Next topic i will scrip data from an another site .








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