ONLY WORKS ON LINUX (cuz windows given me admin problems)
Just a program that I use to gather data on stocks. Less of an investing program, meant to be used to gather data on how companies of different types react to different events. Kinda like a web crawler or somethin. Not Financial advice, meant for educational uses only.
IMPORTANT INFO: None of the data in the program is encrypted nor protected, and it shouldn't be, as all of it with the exception of your api key (learn about that later) is publicly available. This is just a tool for getting public data faster. ONLY WORKS ON LINUX.
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Move the entire file to your desired location, usually under /home or somewhere to your liking.
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Open up the terminal by pressing control + alt + t and navigate to within the investo directory. (if ya need help pay attention to 5)
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Skip part 5 if you know ur linux commands, navigate to investo directory
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If you need help navigating to the right director, take note of the directory in which the file is in. So let's say that the file
is located in /home/urusername/investo If my username was SebasJin, the file would be in /home/SebasJin/investo
So, what you would do is open up your termina (control alt t) if you closed it, and type in cd /home/SebasJin/inevsto -
From there, type in python3 main.py
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Investo will run once, and ask for your desired Username, type it in and press enter Invest will now ask you for an api key, which you can get by going to https://www.alphavantage.co/support/#api-key where you can get a free api key. Once you run through the process, take your api key and type it in.
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type in python3 main.py once again, and Investo will display a message telling you all possible commands to take
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Get started with your program. A simple thing to do is to type in stockoverview, and then enter a ticker symbol such as GE.
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To see the results of your program, check the tmpdata folder to see the stock data you have downloaded.
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Finally, for further help, please check the included help file.
NOTE: If you type anything incorrectly such as your api key, delete the file userdata.json, and run the command python3 main.py, once again, you will be promted to enter your preffered username, and your api key. This will not affect any other files you have.