stock scraper

[tusharnankani]

Description

Scrape the S&P 500 Companies list from Wikipedia, Yahoo Finance, etc., then output the data.
Get stock prices

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[antoniouaa]

To clarify, what sort of data do you want collected from the companies?

[tusharnankani]

To clarify, what sort of data do you want collected from the companies?

Stock prices, Company name and extra useful information that can be scraped.

[antoniouaa]

Stock prices, Company name and extra useful information that can be scraped.

Just from Wiki or would you want to use other websites for financial data like Yahoo! Finance?

[tusharnankani]

Just from Wiki or would you want to use other websites for financial data like Yahoo! Finance?

Yes, you can use other websites as well!

[AdityaJ7]

Due you want to be assigned to this issue @antoniouaa ?

[roopbiswas]

I would like to contribute on this. Let me know if it is okay to take up this issue..

[AdityaJ7]

I would like to contribute on this. Let me know if it is okay to take up this issue..

I guess @antoniouaa is interested in this issue @roopbiswas he is in a different time zone so he might reply a bit late, if he is not interested then we will assign this issue to you.

Thanks

[roopbiswas]

cool. thanks!