Introduction

Notice: 1.22 is the last version of TradeScan, support for this application has ended.

trade-scan is a web crawler that extract data from the famous analysis platform TradingView (a site that hosts up-to-date data on stock markets). trade-scan will help you download all the data into .csv format and store it locally, so that you can perform quantitative analysis using your favourite data science tools.

Pre-requisite

Make sure you have the latest version of Mozilla Firefox.
Support for Google Chrome has ended.

First time use

Go to Releases on the right of this page, and download the .exe file. That's it.

If you have Python installed, you can also:

1. Download this repository as a .zip file and extract it.
2. Double click trade-scan.bat and launch the application.
   (note: virtual environment will be created under "core-process" so it won't mess up with your existing environment)

For further use

It is recommended to execute trade-scan.bat daily or weekly. It takes around 5 minutes to extract a daily snapshot of each market.

Save location

By default, data are saved under "C:\Users\Public\Documents"
If you want to change the output location, please edit in config.ini under "C:\Users\Public".