web_scraping_with_python_cloud.py

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

ticker = 'AAPL'
url = 'https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/' + ticker

res = requests.get( url )
html = res.text

soup = BeautifulSoup( html, 'html.parser' )
market_cap_elem = soup.find( 'td', { 'data-test' : 'MARKET_CAP-value' } )
market_cap = market_cap_elem.text

print( ticker, 'Market Cap', market_cap )

variables[ 'MarketCap' ] = market_cap