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Python 2 code to extract stock market data from Yahoo Finance
from lxml import html
import requests
from exceptions import ValueError
from time import sleep
import json
import argparse
from collections import OrderedDict
from time import sleep
def parse(ticker):
url = "http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%s?p=%s"%(ticker,ticker)
response = requests.get(url, verify=False)
print "Parsing %s"%(url)
sleep(4)
parser = html.fromstring(response.text)
summary_table = parser.xpath('//div[contains(@data-test,"summary-table")]//tr')
summary_data = OrderedDict()
other_details_json_link = "https://query2.finance.yahoo.com/v10/finance/quoteSummary/{0}?formatted=true&lang=en-US&region=US&modules=summaryProfile%2CfinancialData%2CrecommendationTrend%2CupgradeDowngradeHistory%2Cearnings%2CdefaultKeyStatistics%2CcalendarEvents&corsDomain=finance.yahoo.com".format(ticker)
summary_json_response = requests.get(other_details_json_link)
try:
json_loaded_summary = json.loads(summary_json_response.text)
y_Target_Est = json_loaded_summary["quoteSummary"]["result"][0]["financialData"]["targetMeanPrice"]['raw']
earnings_list = json_loaded_summary["quoteSummary"]["result"][0]["calendarEvents"]['earnings']
eps = json_loaded_summary["quoteSummary"]["result"][0]["defaultKeyStatistics"]["trailingEps"]['raw']
datelist = []
for i in earnings_list['earningsDate']:
datelist.append(i['fmt'])
earnings_date = ' to '.join(datelist)
for table_data in summary_table:
raw_table_key = table_data.xpath('.//td[@class="C(black)"]//text()')
raw_table_value = table_data.xpath('.//td[contains(@class,"Ta(end)")]//text()')
table_key = ''.join(raw_table_key).strip()
table_value = ''.join(raw_table_value).strip()
summary_data.update({table_key:table_value})
summary_data.update({'1y Target Est':y_Target_Est,'EPS (TTM)':eps,'Earnings Date':earnings_date,'ticker':ticker,'url':url})
return summary_data
except ValueError:
print "Failed to parse json response"
return {"error":"Failed to parse json response"}
if __name__=="__main__":
argparser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
argparser.add_argument('ticker',help = '')
args = argparser.parse_args()
ticker = args.ticker
print "Fetching data for %s"%(ticker)
scraped_data = parse(ticker)
print "Writing data to output file"
with open('%s-summary.json'%(ticker),'w') as fp:
json.dump(scraped_data,fp,indent = 4)
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