Web Scraping with Python on the cloud

In this tutorial, we use BeautifulSoup and Requests in Python to pull the market cap of a stock (AAPL) from Yahoo Finance. Next, we set our program to run everyday and to send us an sms text message with the results.

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Code from the Tutorial (Updated 4/6/2020)
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import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

ticker = ‘AAPL’
url = ‘https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/‘ + ticker

res = requests.get( url )
html = res.text

soup = BeautifulSoup( html, ‘html.parser’ )
market_cap_elem = soup.find( ‘td’, { ‘data-test’ : ‘MARKET_CAP-value’ } )
market_cap = market_cap_elem.text

print( ticker, ‘Market Cap’, market_cap )

variables[ ‘MarketCap’ ] = market_cap
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