I was looking for ways to scrape forex data after fixer.io switched to a subscription model with rate-limiting, making their API useless for lots of queries.
One alternative API which is still free is https://exchangeratesapi.io/
It's basically a drop-in replacement for fixer.io and can be used to get all forex rates in json format at
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| Pull movie metadata from the https://www.themoviedb.org API. | |
| Requires an API key stored in a .config file | |
| The code is currently restricted to the movie category. To get it to run with | |
| other categories, update the constants | |
| (CATEGORY_SPECIFIC_CALLS, JSON_COLUMNS, KEYS_TO_DROP) | |
| and delete the movie specific section of the export_data() function. |
| from lxml import html | |
| import requests | |
| 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) |
| # For Windows users# Note: <> denotes changes to be made | |
| #Create a conda environment | |
| conda create --name <environment-name> python=<version:2.7/3.5> | |
| #To create a requirements.txt file: | |
| conda list #Gives you list of packages used for the environment | |
| conda list -e > requirements.txt #Save all the info about packages to your folder |
| #!/usr/bin/env python | |
| #-*- coding: utf-8 -*- | |
| # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify | |
| # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | |
| # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or | |
| # (at your option) any later version. | |
| # | |
| # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
| # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
