A specialized web scraping tool designed to extract economic calendar data from Forex Factory and store it in CSV format for analysis and historical data collection.
This project automates the collection of economic calendar events from Forex Factory's website. The tool will scrape calendar data on a monthly basis, extracting important economic events, their scheduled times, impact levels, and related financial data.
- Monthly Data Collection: Extracts calendar data for specific months to build comprehensive historical datasets
- CSV Data Storage: Converts web-based calendar information into structured CSV files for easy analysis
- Economic Event Details: Captures complete event information including currency, impact level, actual values, forecasts, and previous data
- Automated Process: Removes the need for manual data collection from the Forex Factory website
- Economic Analysis: Build datasets for backtesting trading strategies and market analysis
- Research Projects: Collect historical economic event data for academic or financial research
- Data Archival: Create local backups of important economic calendar information
- Market Intelligence: Generate organized economic event data for decision-making processes
The tool generates CSV files containing structured economic calendar data with all relevant event details, organized by month for easy analysis and historical reference.
Note: This project is currently in development. Technical documentation and usage instructions will be added once the implementation is complete.