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Hi guys,

I'm new to coding and python, I'm interested in stocks and analysis and wanted to look into making a scanner/screener.

Before I get started there's one key thing I wanted check if something was possible with some more experienced folks which would save me a bunch of time.

Will it be possible to scan yahoo finance for stocks within a certain price range and then display the stocks within that range and their real time price ie. the price of those found stocks will change/update. This includes pre-market. The idea behind this is I won't have to re-run the program to get the updated price. This would also be used for the volume of the current day.

Feel free to post below or private message me. Bear in mind I don't know much of the lingo to get too technical but am willing to try if there's an important aspect in making this work.

Cheers

(Aug-09-2018, 12:56 PM)nathanz Wrote: [ -> ]Will it be possible to scan yahoo finance for stocks within a certain price range and then display the stocks within that range and their real time price ie. the price of those found stocks will change/update. This includes pre-market. The idea behind this is I won't have to re-run the program to get the updated price. This would also be used for the volume of the current day.

If the price changes, the database you have is outdated and would require the program to be reran to at least update the database. Or your program is going to be constantly connected to obtain the up to date prices meaning its constantly running, or running at certain intervals.

I have no idea about anything regarding stocks. So iam not sure if yahoo finance has an API to connect to to get updated stats, or whether you just have to scan their website, etc.