Dec-29-2017, 12:55 AM
This is my completed Python script so far. It basically just parses a news website and organizes the companies' news into a google sheet file. The news is searched for with key words, and companies of certain market caps are kept.
while True:
import bs4 as bs
import urllib.request
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get('https://login.globenewswire.com/?ReturnUrl=%2fSecurity%2fLogin%3fculture%3den-US&culture=en-US#login')
# MANUALLY DO THE LOGIN
import pygsheets
gc = pygsheets.authorize()
sh = gc.open('GNW API')
wks = sh.sheet1
import datetime
import time
x = 18
y = 26
KeyWords = ['develop', 'contract', 'award', 'certif', 'execut', 'research', 'drug', 'theraputic', 'pivotal', 'trial', 'patient', 'data', 'fda', 'stud', 'phase', 'licenc', 'cancer', 'agree', 'clinical', 'acquisition', 'translational', 'trial', 'worldwide', 'world wide', 'world-wide', 'exclusiv', 'positive', 'successful', 'enter', 'sell', 'acquir', 'buy', 'bought', 'payment', 'availiab', 'design', 'transaction', 'increas', 'sale', 'record', 'clearance', 'right', 'launch', 'introduc', 'payment', 'meet', 'endpoint', 'primary', 'secondary', 'major', 'milestone', 'collaborat', 'beat', 'astound', 'sign', 'order', 'suppl', 'produc', 'made', 'make', 'making', 'customer', 'client', 'mulitpl', 'result', 'distribut', 'disease', 'treat', 'chmp', 'priority', 'promis', 'patent', 'purchas', 'allianc', 'strategic', 'team', 'commercializ', 'approv', 'select', 'strong', 'strength', 'grow', 'profit', 'improv', 'partner', 'cannabis', 'crypto', 'bitcoin', 'platform', 'expands', 'extends']
break
while True:
now = datetime.datetime.today()
while now.hour == x:
while now.minute == y:
list =
listfinal =
driver.get('https://globenewswire.com/Search?runSearchId=41556723')
elementals = driver.find_elements_by_class_name('post-title16px')
for elements in elementals:
list.append(elements.find_element_by_css_selector('a').get_attribute('href'))
for elements in list:
if any(KeyWords_item in elements.lower() for KeyWords_item in KeyWords):
listfinal.append(elements)
for elementals in listfinal:
sauce = urllib.request.urlopen(elementals).read()
soup = bs.BeautifulSoup(sauce,'lxml')
desc = soup.find_all(attrs={"name":"ticker"}, limit=1)
tickerraw = (desc[0]['content'].encode('utf-8'))
decodedticker = tickerraw.decode('utf')
souptitle = soup.title.text
while True:
if ', ' in decodedticker.lower():
finaltickerlist = decodedticker.split(', ')
for elements in finaltickerlist:
if 'nyse' in elements.lower():
if ':' in elements:
a, b = elements.split(':')
finaltickerexchange = 'NYSE'
finalticker = b
if ' ' in finalticker:
finalticker = finalticker.replace(' ', '')
break
else:
break
else:
finalticker = 'NoTicker'
finaltickerexchange = 'NoTicker'
elif 'nasdaq' in elements.lower():
if ':' in elements:
a, b = elements.split(':')
finaltickerexchange = 'NASDAQ'
finalticker = b
if ' ' in finalticker:
finalticker = finalticker.replace(' ', '')
break
else:
break
else:
finalticker = 'NoTicker'
finaltickerexchange = 'NoTicker'
elif 'tsx' in elements.lower():
if ':' in elements:
a, b = elements.split(':')
finaltickerexchange = 'TSX'
finalticker = b
if ' ' in finalticker:
finalticker = finalticker.replace(' ', '')
break
else:
break
else:
finalticker = 'NoTicker'
finaltickerexchange = 'NoTicker'
else:
finalticker = 'NoTicker'
finaltickerexchange = 'NoTicker'
elif 'nasdaq' in decodedticker.lower():
if ':' in decodedticker.lower():
a, b = decodedticker.split(':', maxsplit=1)
finalticker = b
if ' ' in finalticker:
finalticker = finalticker.replace(' ', '')
finaltickerexchange = 'NASDAQ'
elif 'nyse' in decodedticker.lower():
if ':' in decodedticker.lower():
a, b = decodedticker.split(':', maxsplit=1)
finalticker = b
if ' ' in finalticker:
finalticker = finalticker.replace(' ', '')
finaltickerexchange = 'NYSE'
elif 'tsx' in decodedticker.lower():
if ':' in decodedticker.lower():
a, b = decodedticker.split(':', maxsplit=1)
finalticker = b
if ' ' in finalticker:
finalticker = finalticker.replace(' ', '')
finaltickerexchange = 'TSX'
else:
finalticker = 'NoTicker'
finaltickerexchange = 'NoTicker'
break
if finalticker != 'NoTicker':
sauce = urllib.request.urlopen('https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/' + finalticker + '?p=' + finalticker).read()
soup = bs.BeautifulSoup(sauce,'lxml')
mc_elm = soup.find(attrs={"data-test":"MARKET_CAP-value"})
while True:
if mc_elm:
marketcap = mc_elm.get_text()
else:
marketcap = "TickerNotFound"
break
while True:
if 'B' in marketcap:
marketcap = 'Billion Kalppa'
else:
values_list = ([finalticker,finaltickerexchange,marketcap,souptitle,elements])
wks.insert_rows(row=0, number=1, values=values_list)
break
if x == 23:
x = 0
time.sleep(3000)
else:
x += 1
time.sleep(3000)
break
time.sleep(55)
breakI intend to have this program run in the background and scrap news every hour when its the 26th minute of the hour. However after a while (not immediately, the code can run for 7-8 hours or iterations before this happens) I get this error:Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#3>", line 93, in <module>
sauce = urllib.request.urlopen('https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/' + finalticker + '?p=' + finalticker).read()
File "C:\Users\Arbi717\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\urllib\request.py", line 223, in urlopen
return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
File "C:\Users\Arbi717\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\urllib\request.py", line 532, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "C:\Users\Arbi717\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\urllib\request.py", line 642, in http_response
'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
File "C:\Users\Arbi717\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\urllib\request.py", line 570, in error
return self._call_chain(*args)
File "C:\Users\Arbi717\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\urllib\request.py", line 504, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "C:\Users\Arbi717\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\urllib\request.py", line 650, in http_error_default
raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 503: Service UnavailableI believe urllib.request is the problem because I am seeing that in the error a lot, however I have no idea what the solution is. Any help is much appreciated.
