financelite 0.0.4

A lightweight stock information package for simple tasks

financelite

financelite is a lightweight stock information tool that takes every complicated features out.
It only focuses on providing simple and intuitive, yet informative stock information.

Currently, financelite is in a rapidly-evolving state. While I'll try to stay within the boundaries, please understand your implementation may have to change in the future upgrades.

Installation

pip install financelite

Example Usage

from financelite import News, Stock
from financelite.exceptions import NoNewsFoundException, DataRequestException

news = News()
try:
    news.get_news(ticker="gme", count=5)
except NoNewsFoundException:
    # handle exception
    pass
# returns 5 GME-related news

stock = Stock(ticker="gme")
try:
    stock.get_live()
    # returns GME's live price and currency

    stock.get_data(interval="1d", range="5d")
    # returns statistics for 5 days, with 1 day interval
except DataRequestException:
    # handle exception
    pass

Special Thanks

• yahoo! finance for providing awesome websites and APIs.
• Andrew Treadway for providing an open source package for processing finance data.