sashreek1 / VWAP_Calculator

A Selenium webscraper script that fetches historical share values for a company and calculates its 90 day VWAP.

Installation

• Install python 3.5 or later from https://www.python.org/downloads/. DO NOT INSTALL FROM THE WINDOWS STORE

  • Make sure to add python to path while installing it (check the box beside "Add python 3 to PATH" in the installation wizard)
  • Click on Install Now

  

• Now clone/download the repository to your desired location

• Open command prompt

• cd into the folder that you have downloaded and run the following command

  • pip install -r requirements.txt

• The supported browser for this script is only firefox, make sure you have firefox installed

• Open the main.py file with IDLE

• Change number_shares_2019 value at line 167 to number of shares you bought in 2019 (bottom of the file)

• Change number_shares_2020 value at line 168 to number of shares you bought in 2020 (bottom of the file)

• Change company_name value to the name of the desired company as depicted in the drop down at https://www.moneycontrol.com/stocks/histstock.php?classic=true

Running the script

• Open the command prompt
• cd into the folder that has the script
• Run the command python main.py

or

• Right click the main.py file, select open with and choose python

Note

• Your output file will be generated in the same directory as the script
• DO NOT EDIT the excel file. In case you would like to make any calculations, copy the file elsewhere and do so, or make sure to restore the original file after editing it in the same directory
• The file containing the output will be called local_VWAP_data.xlsx