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get data from finviz
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# Get Data | |
finviz_url = 'https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=' | |
news_tables = {} | |
for ticker in tickers: | |
url = finviz_url + ticker | |
req = Request(url=url,headers={'user-agent': 'my-app/0.0.1'}) | |
resp = urlopen(req) | |
html = BeautifulSoup(resp, features="lxml") | |
news_table = html.find(id='news-table') | |
news_tables[ticker] = news_table | |
try: | |
for ticker in tickers: | |
df = news_tables[ticker] | |
df_tr = df.findAll('tr') | |
print ('\n') | |
print ('Recent News Headlines for {}: '.format(ticker)) | |
for i, table_row in enumerate(df_tr): | |
a_text = table_row.a.text | |
td_text = table_row.td.text | |
td_text = td_text.strip() | |
print(a_text,'(',td_text,')') | |
if i == n-1: | |
break | |
except KeyError: | |
pass |
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