goog_market_cap.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
# *-* coding: utf-8 *-*

#    Copyright (C) 2014 by Ángel Guzmán Maeso, shakaran at gmail dot com

#    goog_market_cap is a simple python script for know the GOOG Market Cap value from Yahoo Finance

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from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests

r  = requests.get('http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=GOOG')

if r and r.status_code == 200:
    market_cap = BeautifulSoup(r.text).find('span', {'id':'yfs_j10_goog'}).get_text()
    print('GOOG Market Cap value: ' + str(market_cap))