NSE stock price scraper

[pratik-choudhari]

I would like to contribute an NSE scraper which will help scrape the following:

1. Nifty50 index value
2. Last traded price of a particular stock
3. All nifty50 stock prices

P.S. This repository is a Great initiative✨

[DarshanDeshpande]

Sure. Go ahead. Make sure to read and follow the contributing guidelines here

[Ashish0804]

@pratik-choudhari Why write a separate scraper for NSE when yahoo finance already provides it?

[pratik-choudhari]

@Ashish0804 Does yahoo finance API provide indian stock prices? If so, could you name the library?

[Ashish0804]

@Ashish0804 Does yahoo finance API provide indian stock prices? If so, could you name the library?

Yes YF does provide data for both NSE aswell as BSE.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/RELIANCE.NS?p=RELIANCE.NS&.tsrc=fin-srch

Here's the library mostly used for getting data from YF
https://pypi.org/project/yfinance/

AFAIK pandas can also download data from YF.

[pratik-choudhari]

@Ashish0804 If its from yahoo website we still need to scrape it right? and yfinance doesn't recognize indian stocks, I have tried it, it doesn't recognize SBI or its ticker SBIN

[Ashish0804]

@Ashish0804 If its from yahoo website we still need to scrape it right? and yfinance doesn't recognize indian stocks, I have tried it, it doesn't recognize SBI or its ticker SBIN

for non us exchanges you have to provide it's name along with exchange name
so for sbi it is SBIN.NS

And you don't have to scrape it from website. the yfinance library does everything. It is also used by algo traders so if fairly robust.

Here's the code to scrape SBI aswell as the output.

Python 3.7.7 (default, May 7 2020, 21:25:33)
[GCC 7.3.0] :: Anaconda, Inc. on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

import yfinance as yf
sbi = yf.Ticker("SBIN.NS")
hist = sbi.history(period="1day")
print(hist)
Open High Low Close Volume Dividends Stock Splits
Date
2021-01-22 295.5 298.0 282.399994 283.700012 44440810 0 0
2021-01-22 295.5 298.0 282.399994 283.700012 44435474 0 0

Please let me know if i am missing or confusing something.

[pratik-choudhari]

Oh yeah, thats great. @DarshanDeshpande If you want, you can close this issue. No problem by my side.