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Import NASDAQ stocks from Quandl EOD data
import pymongo
from pymongo import MongoClient
import csv
import urllib2
import sys
import os.path
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
QUANDL_API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY"
# Are we using development or Production ?
# uri = "mongodb://USERNAME:PASSWORD@INSTANCE.documents.azure.com:10255/?ssl=true&replicaSet=globaldb"
uri = 'mongodb://localhost:27017'
# Make sure unique index has been created
# db.candles.createIndex({ date: 1, ticker: 1 }, { unique: true })
client = MongoClient(uri)
db = client.fluid
candles = db.candles
# We don't need all candles from IPO to now - I'll start with the past few months
sixty_days_ago = datetime.now() - timedelta(days=60)
# Get the list of tickers from the companies collection
companies = db.companies.find()
for company in companies:
print("Getting " + company['Name'])
url = 'https://www.quandl.com/api/v3/datatables/WIKI/PRICES.csv?date.gte=' + str(sixty_days_ago.date()) + '&api_key=' + QUANDL_API_KEY + "&ticker=" + company['Symbol']
csvfile = urllib2.urlopen(url)
reader = csv.DictReader(csvfile, delimiter=',')
for line in reader:
sys.stdout.write('.')
candles.insert_one(line)
sys.stdout.write('\n')
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