kianweelee / Stock-price-extractor-for-SQL

A python script to scrape stock prices off NASDAQ API and feed it to MySQL

Exporting stock prices to SQL

This is a simple python script to that extract data from a python package called yfinance and feed it to MySQL. The initial script that I have created was able to scrape data from NASDAQ API but it is no longer available. Hence, I have fall back on using the yfinance package to export stock data into my database.

Set up

Dependencies

PyMySQL==1.0.2 pandas==1.0.5 SQLAlchemy==1.3.17 yfinance==0.1.55

Installing dependencies

• Python: You can install Python using Anaconda. It is the easiest way to install python and it comes with a good amount of data science packages.
• MySQL: I used MySQL Community server. Please remember your password as it will need to use it everytime you log into the server.
• python-dateutil,ujson,mysql-connector-python,urllib3 can be installed using pip.

$ pip install mysql-connector-python

or conda

conda install -c anaconda mysql-connector-python

What to do before running code

• Log in using:

mysql -u root -p

• Edit the config file
  • You will need to change the details to your own. This is an essential step to prevent the disclosure of your server details.

Licensing

This scraper is licensed under the GPL license. You can check the information inside the LICENSE file. To make it short, I wanted it to be free and open, so that anyone can contribute to it.