On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 8:33 AM, Friedrich Rentsch <anthra.nor...@bluewin.ch> wrote: > > > On 05/16/2018 02:23 AM, Mike McClain wrote: >> >> Initially I got my quotes from a broker daily to plug into a >> spreadsheet, Then I found Yahoo and wrote a perl script to grab them. >> When Yahoo quit supplying quotes I found AlphaVantage.co and rewrote >> the perl script. >> AlphaVantage.co has been down since last week and I found >> iextrading.com has a freely available interface. Since it needs >> a rewrite and I'm trying to get a handle on python this seems >> like a good opportunity to explore. >> If someone would please suggest modules to explore. Are there any >> upper level modules that would allow me to do something like: >> >> from module import get >> def getAquote(symbol): >> url = 'https://api.iextrading.com/1.0/stock/()/quote'.format(symbol) >> reply = module.get(url) >> return my_parse(reply) >> >> Thanks, >> Mike >> -- >> Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick >> themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. >> - Churchill > > > I didn't know the site you mention. I've been getting quotes from Yahoo > daily. The service they discontinued was for up to 50 symbols per page. I > now parse a separate page of some 500K of html for each symbol! This site is > certainly more concise and surely a lot faster. It serves a naked set of > data, which happens to conform to the python source code specification for > dictionaries and consequently can be compiled into a dictionary with 'eval', > like so: > >>>> ibm = urllib2.urlopen >>>> ("https://api.iextrading.com/1.0/stock/IBM/quote";).read() >>>> ibm = eval (ibm) >>>> for item in sorted (ibm.items()): print '%-24s%s' % item > > avgTotalVolume 5331869 > calculationPrice close > change -0.56 > changePercent -0.00388 > close 143.74 > closeTime 1526414517398 > companyName International Business Machines Corporation > delayedPrice 143.74 > delayedPriceTime 1526414517398 > high 143.99 > iexAskPrice 0 > iexAskSize 0 > iexBidPrice 0 > iexBidSize 0 > iexLastUpdated 0 > iexMarketPercent 0 > iexRealtimePrice 0 > iexRealtimeSize 0 > iexVolume 0 > latestPrice 143.74 > latestSource Close > latestTime May 15, 2018 > latestUpdate 1526414517398 > latestVolume 4085996 > low 142.92 > marketCap 131948764304 > open 143.5 > openTime 1526391000646 > peRatio 10.34 > previousClose 144.3 > primaryExchange New York Stock Exchange > sector Technology > symbol IBM > week52High 171.13 > week52Low 139.13 > ytdChange -0.0485148849103 > > You would do multiple symbols in a loop which you enter with an open urllib > object, rather than opening a new one for each symbol inside the loop. > > Frederic > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Many people find the library called Requests a better alternative to urllib. It is more intuitive -- Joel Goldstick http://joelgoldstick.com/blog http://cc-baseballstats.info/stats/birthdays -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
