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Automated Stock Update

A personalized Python process that sends an email to you daily at a specified time giving updates on stocks you would like to follow.

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By Sarah Marion


Description

Created a personalized Python process that sends an email to you daily at a specified time giving updates on stocks that a user would like to follow utilizing the IEX stock exchange API.

User Stories

As a user I would like:

  • to retrieve stock symbols & stock name.
  • to exchange stock.
  • to view links to the latest article found that mentions your stocks.
  • to build an email template based off the information recieved and send to yourself.

Technologies Used

  • Python3.6
  • Python libraries
  • Google Client Library

Setup/Installation Requirements

Prerequisites

  • Internet access
  • Gmail account
  • Text Editor (vscode) N?B any would do
  • Amazon AWS account
  • IEX API
  • git clone https://github.com/sarah-marion/Automated_Stock_Update.git
  • cd Automated_Stock_Update

To install a virtual environment

  • python3.6 -m venv virtual
  • source virtual/bin/activate

To install all dependencies

  • python3.6 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Dependancy Installments

  • pip3 install python3.6
  • pip3 install --upgrade google-api-python-client google-auth-httplib2 google-auth-oauthlib

Installing Python Libraries needed

  • pip3 install datetime requests jinja2

Running the application

Configure gmail.py email settings to your preference

Configure symbols in app.py for the stocks you want to receive.

run ```python3 app.py`` to get the application running and send the email to your desired destination

python3 quickstart.py to check your email configurations via the terminal

Known Bugs

It does not have bugs.But if any problems should occur, email me at devsarahmarion@gmail.com

  • N/B Also it is not finished yet...more features and functionalities are still being worked on for it to be utilized in a Windows task scheduler.

Support and Contact Details

You can reach out to me at devsarahmarion@gmail.com for Reviews, Advice, Collaborations and Comments

Licence

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2018 Dev Sarah Marion

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.


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