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Query a stock symbol with the python requests library
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stock_request.py
import requests
API_URL="http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv"
symbol="AMZN"
params="sopc"
querystring = API_URL + "?s=" + symbol + "&f=" + params
result = requests.get(querystring)
print(result.text)
# for more info on params
# https://ilmusaham.wordpress.com/tag/stock-yahoo-data/
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