Historical Stock Price Listing Web Application

This web application project demonstrate a Listing of all Historical Stock Price Items extracted from an external API. This project is built with Python (Django Framework). This application also has a pagination facility where each page containing 100 listing entries.

Setup

1. Clone the repository

$ git clone https://github.com/jeet-khondker/historical-stock.git
$ cd historical-stock

2. Install and create a virtual environment and activate it

$ pip3 install virtualenv
$ virtualenv historicalstock-venv
$ source historicalstock-venv/bin/activate

3. Install the dependencies

(historicalstock-venv)$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Note the (historicalstock-venv) in front of the prompt. This indicates that this terminal session operates in a virtual environment set up by virtualenv.

4. Navigate to https://financialmodelingprep.com/developer/docs/ to get your API Key. If you are not a registered user, please sign up and get the API Key.

5. Create a .env file in the root directory and paste the following code in the file.

API_KEY = "your-api-key"

6. Migrate the database

(historicalstock-venv)$ python manage.py migrate

7. Run the server

(historicalstock-venv)$ python manage.py runserver

8. Open http://127.0.0.1:8000/ in the browser.

Technology Used

Python (Django Framework), HTML5, CSS3

Author

Jeet Z. H. Khondker, Full Stack Web Developer