StockChecker

This repository contains a stock checking program built on the Alpha Vantage API for the purpose of meeting the requirements for Task 1 of the Software Design & Development Preliminary Syllabus

Introduction

StockChecker (Code developed and maintained by Benjamin Ranford, documentation in its original state created by Daniel Oroszvari) is a program developed in Python. Its purpose is that of checking the prices of company shares.

Getting Started

1. Install dependencies
2. Download program
3. Check permissions
4. Run program

Dependencies

pandas - An open source, BSD-licensed library built for the Python Programming Language and used to provide high-performance, simplistic data analysis tools.

alpha_vantage Application Programming Interface (API) - An API used to fetch realtime data of share prices.

pprint - A module that provides the ability to organise Python data structures into a format easily read by the user.

json - A JavaScript inspired data interchange format.

matplotlib.pyplot - A plotting library developed for the Python Programming Language and NumPy, and is used to embed plots into applications.

warnings - A module used to display alerts. Typically used to present the user with an alert on an outlier affecting the condition of the program.

sys - A module (that is always available) providing access to variables maintained by and interacting with the interpreter.

requests - An HTTP Library that allows for the sending of requests without manual labor.

datetime - This module supplies the program with a variety of date and time displays (simple and complex).

Feature	Description	Example
Ticker Symbol input from the user	Retrieves prices of stocks from a variety of markets	companyname2 = input("What is the name of the company you'd like stock prices for? Please input a NASDAQ stock, and if you get an error, break the program and try it again. ")
Ticker Symbol input from the user	Capitalises the code IF it is entered as lowercase	companynameupper = companyname2.upper()
Yahoo Finance API	Returns the company name from the symbol input	"http://d.yimg.com/autoc.finance.yahoo.com/autoc?query={}&region=1&lang=en"
Pretty Print	Data produced on the program in an organised fashion	pprint(data.head(1))
Graph query	Queries user on whether or not they would like a graph	print("") print("Do you want a graph? (Y/N)") print("")
Prediction of future stock prices	Produces (predicted) stock prices of the company the user selected	input("How many days into the future would you like to predict? ")) df = quandl.get("WIKI/" + companynameupper df = df[['Adj. Close']]

Grok Learning Modules Used

Hello World!

Hello to you three!

Open Sesame!

Changing Text to Uppercase

What Helped

• https://pandas.pydata.org/
• https://pypi.python.org/pypi/alpha_vantage/0.2.1
• https://docs.python.org/2/library/pprint.html
• https://docs.python.org/3/library/json.html
• https://matplotlib.org/api/pyplot_api.html
• https://docs.python.org/2/library/warnings.html
• https://docs.python.org/2/library/sys.html
• http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/
• https://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html