Small class that retrieves stock prices via the Alpha Vantage API.
No dependencies.
The data is retrieved via the Alpha Vantage API: https://www.alphavantage.co/
You need an API key, it's free and you'll get it without email address confirmation: https://www.alphavantage.co/support/#api-key
Note that the API is limited to 5 requests per minute and 500 requests per day. If you get errors, too many requests might be the reason.
from stocks import Stocks
apikey = "your api key"
stocks = Stocks(apikey)
res = stocks.price("AAPL")
print(f'{res["name"]} is at {res["currency"]}{res["price"]}')
The output of the print function would be:
AAPL is at EUR288.34
In this case, we request the stock price for the symbol "AAPL" (which stands for Apple). The result res contains a dict with name (which is the same as the input symbol given), currency, which is per default EUR and the price, which is a float.
If you want the stock price in a different currency, you have two options:
stocks.set_currency("USD") - changes the default currency to USD
This is useful if you always want every result to be in the specified currency.
Alternatively you can add the currency directly in the price request:
res = stocks.price("AAPL","JPY") - which requests the stock price in JPY (Japanese YEN).
Finally, you can convert prices between currencies manually:
price_in_USD = 100
price_in_EUR = stocks.convert_currency(price_in_USD, "USD", "EUR")
- 0.0.1 ** Initial commit