bsedata 0.4.0

A package for fetching data from BSE

bsedata

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Python library for extracting real-time data from Bombay Stock Exchange (India).

Introduction

bsedata is a library for collecting real-time data from Bombay Stock Exchange (India). It can be used in various types of projects which require getting live quotes for a given stock or index or build large data sets for data analysis.

The data is as accurate as provided on the BSE website.

Please do not use this application for production usage. It is best used for learning and building application for your own use. For commercial application you better buy a data service.

This library uses MIT license hence liability lies with the user and not the author of the application.

As per India's IT act it is no where mentioned that we cannot scrape a website. It's up to me whether I consume the publicly available data "visually" or through my programme or using some kind of "web reader". As long as data you are scrapping is available in public domain and you are not breaching security and accessing data of private nature with malicious intent, it cannot be termed as illegal.

But it can certainly be termed "unethical" (which is equally bad) since you are damaging the service itself. Hence be prudent about how much stress you cause to the backend. BSE's website is very capable and even they will not mind if someone is scrapping their website for educational purposes.

Features

• Getting live quotes using stock codes in Python dicttionaries
• Getting list of top losers
• Getting list of top gainers
• Getting quotes for all the indices traded in BSE
• Helper APIs to check whether a given stock code or index code is correct
• Getting list of all indices and stocks

Roadmap

• Get details of an individual index
• Complete unit test coverage
• Daily OHLCV data
• Historical EOD OHLCV data

Dependencies

• BeautifulSoup 4
• Requests
• lxml
• A working internet connection :wink:

Usage

Refer the documentation at https://bsedata.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage.html

Change Log

v0.4.0

New Features:

• Switched to lxml parser for better performance

Bug Fixes:

• Add a generic User Agent to all the requests as BSE website is blocking requests from the default requests user agent (python-requests/2.23.0) (issue #5, issue #9, issue #13, issue #14)

v0.3.1

Bug Fixes:

• Quick fix for getQuote method crashing due to missing priceBand attribute (issue #5)

v0.3.0

New Features:

• Implement updateScripCodes, getScripCodes and verifyScripCode methods to verify and search scrip codes

Bug Fixes:

• Fix getIndices method returning empty response
• Fix getQuote method not returning company name

v0.2.0

New Features:

• Getting quotes for all the indices traded in BSE

v0.1.0

New Features:

• Getting live quotes using stock codes
• Return data in both JSON and python (dict and list) formats
• Getting list of top losers
• Getting list of top gainers

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2018 Shrey Dabhi

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