Moneycontrol.com is an Indian online business news website owned by E-EIGHTEEN Dot Com Ltd., a subsidiary of the media house TV18. moneycontrolPy is a python API for Money Control Forum.
- Get User Information
- Get Post Information
- Get Stock Information
- Get top boarders
- Get stock in the news
Before running the the package make sure you already have these pip packages.
- datetime
- json
- re
- time
- dateparser
- bs4
- selenium
and the same chromedriver version of your current Google Chrome Browser. You can download the respective chromedriver from here.
moneycontrolPy requires python3.6 and above to run. Install the dependencies and moneycontrolPy from pip.
pip install moneycontrolPyAfter installing, you can import the package by
import moneycontrolPy.mcp as mcp
api = mcp.API()
api.DRIVER_PATH = 'path_to_your_chromedriver_file/chromedriver'
url_user = "https://mmb.moneycontrol.com/arvind151-user-profile-617276696e64313531.html"
url_post = "https://mmb.moneycontrol.com/forum-topics/stocks/hero-motocorp/thread-message-81248383-83073237.html"
url_stock = 'https://mmb.moneycontrol.com/forum-topics/stocks/ab-money-246165.html'
"""
You could change the urls if you want to search
for a specific user/post/stock from the moneycontol forum.
"""
user_info = api.get_user_info(url_user) #To extract the user information
post_info = api.get_post_info(url_post) #To extract the post information
stock_info = api.get_stock_info(url_stock) #To extract the stock information
top_boarders = api.get_top_boarders() #To extract the top boarders
hot_stocks = api.get_stock_in_the_news() #To extract the stock in the news
"""
There are numerous options/parameters available for each of the above functions functions.
Please refer the docstring to find them all or you could see the source code & try to understand them.
All these functions returns a dict.
You can same them as json by passing the following parameter
Eg.
user_info = api.get_user_info(url_user,save_as_json=True)
"""Want to contribute? Great! Find moneycontrolPy Github repo and feel free to fork and modify to your need.
- Better scrolling methods.
- Code standardization.
- Including other web browser drivers.
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