scrape_stock.py

# Python 3.4
 
import requests
import bs4 
 
def get_stock_price(name):
    url = "https://www.google.com/finance"
    data = requests.get(url, params={'q': name})
    bs = bs4.BeautifulSoup(data.text)
    div_price = bs.find(attrs={"id": "price-panel"})
    span_price = div_price.find(attrs={"class": "pr"})
    return float(span_price.text.strip())
 
print(get_stock_price("GOOG"))