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Python Script to extract Sector and Industry for a company stock listed on Google Finance
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| from urllib import urlopen | |
| from lxml.html import parse | |
| ''' | |
| Returns a tuple (Sector, Indistry) | |
| Usage: GFinSectorIndustry('IBM') | |
| ''' | |
| def GFinSectorIndustry(name): | |
| tree = parse(urlopen('http://www.google.com/finance?&q='+name)) | |
| return tree.xpath("//a[@id='sector']")[0].text, tree.xpath("//a[@id='sector']")[0].getnext().text |
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Hello.
Go to web page. On MS Window's browser (Chrome). Mous right click on desireble element in web page and then "Inspect" => browser showd HTML script and selects element that you have clicked. Right click on selected item and chose simple XPath.
I recomend to find in google tutorial of XPath