{"repo":"oxylabs/how-to-scrape-google-finance","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/oxylabs/how-to-scrape-google-finance","clone":"git clone https://github.com/oxylabs/how-to-scrape-google-finance.git","description":"Use Web Scraper API to extract data from Google Finance, including stock titles, pricing, and price changes in percentages.","language":"Python","stars":1324,"topics":["finance-api","financial-data-extraction","google-finance","google-finance-api","google-scraper","scrape-google","stock-scraper","stocks-api","stocks-data","stocks-prices"],"license":null,"category":"scrapers-browser-automation","readme_excerpt":"How to Scrape Google Finance with Python Follow this Python tutorial to learn how to scrape public data from Google Finance, such as stock titles , pricing , and price changes in percentages . We'll show how you can use Oxylabs' Web Scraper API for this task, which requires a subscription or a free trial. You can claim a 1-week free trial by registering on the Oxylabs dashboard. - Step 1: Install prerequisite libraries - Step 2: Build the core structure - Step 3: Create a parsing logic 1) Collect prices 2) Get the stock price change in % 3) Retrieve the stock title - Complete code sample Step 1: Install prerequisite libraries In your terminal, run this pip command: You may skip Beautiful Soup altogether and instead use Custom Parser, which is built into the API. Step 2: Build the core structure Next, let's define the general logic for the finance data scraper. We’ll create functionality for defining multiple Google Finance URLs that we’d like to scrape. Afterwards, we’ll take these URLs one by one, collect the information we need and save it as a JSON file. The following function will return the scraped Google Finance HTML page: [!NOTE] Don’t forget to replace the USERNAME and PASSWORD with your own Oxylabs API credentials. For the next step, we’ll be creating a function that accepts a BeautifulSoup object created from the HTML of the whole page. This function will create and return an object containing stock information. Let’s try to form the function in a way that makes it ","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/oxylabs","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/oxylabs/how-to-scrape-google-finance/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}