This project contains a python program that allows the user to explore data obtained from https://finance.yahoo.com/ as a WebScraper.

The program will obtain from Yahoo Finance's main page the last closing values of the top 3 trending stock market indexes that you can see in the top of the main page.

This will return a dataframe with all the data and will display it in different plots.

The aim of this project is not to provide a tool to extract useful information from yahoo finances specifically (there are programs very efficient for that: https://github.com/ranaroussi/yfinance), instead this repository is going to explore the functions of the libraries bs4 and request and how to use them to present the results.

Library that the program uses:

• bs4
• requests
• pandas
• plotnine

Files:

• main.py: The python program
• main.IPYNB: Jupyter Notebook with the main program and explanatory text.
• date_conversion.py: This function converts in one line the dates of the dataframe as datetime.
• give_me_trend.py: This function returns top 3 trending stock market indexes from yahoo finance and their urls.
• give_me_top3Data.py: This function returns a Dataframe that contains the close values of the top 3 trending stock market indexes in yahoo finance's main page.
• README: File that contains the description of the functionality of the program and the contents of the files.

Work based in model by Manthan Koolwal: https://codeburst.io/how-to-scrape-yahoo-finance-using-python-31164aa06468