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updated the URL and HTML tags for scrapping yahoo finance #8942

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updated the url and tags for yahoo finance
Suman2023 Aug 10, 2023
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[pre-commit.ci] auto fixes from pre-commit.com hooks
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updated to return the error text
Suman2023 Aug 11, 2023
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Merge branch 'stock-price-fix' of github.com:Suman2023/Python into st…
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16 changes: 12 additions & 4 deletions web_programming/current_stock_price.py
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def stock_price(symbol: str = "AAPL") -> str:
url = f"https://in.finance.yahoo.com/quote/{symbol}?s={symbol}"
soup = BeautifulSoup(requests.get(url).text, "html.parser")
class_ = "My(6px) Pos(r) smartphone_Mt(6px)"
return soup.find("div", class_=class_).find("span").text
url = f"https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/{symbol}?p={symbol}"
yahoo_finance_source = requests.get(url, headers={"USER-AGENT": "Mozilla/5.0"}).text
soup = BeautifulSoup(yahoo_finance_source, "html.parser")
specific_fin_streamer_tag = soup.find("fin-streamer", {"data-test": "qsp-price"})

if specific_fin_streamer_tag:
text = specific_fin_streamer_tag.get_text()
return text
else:
print("No <fin-streamer> tag with the specified data-test attribute found.")
return "Not Found"
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# Search for the symbol at https://finance.yahoo.com/lookup
if __name__ == "__main__":
for symbol in "AAPL AMZN IBM GOOG MSFT ORCL".split():
print(f"Current {symbol:<4} stock price is {stock_price(symbol):>8}")