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Investing

A little command-line app to download historical data from investing.com in CSV format.

Setup

git clone git@github.com:derlin/investing-historical-data.git
cd investing-historical-data
npm install

Usage

To run the script, use one of the following:

npm start -- <args>
node investing.js <args>

Available commands

  Commands:
  
    get [name|id]  get historical data
    list           list all available commodities
    help [cmd]     display help for [cmd]
  
  Options:
  
    -h, --help     output usage information
    -V, --version  output the version number

list

Get the list of available commodities.

  Options:
  
    -h, --help            output usage information
    -V, --version         output the version number
    -c --country [UK|US]  list only commodities from the given country
    -r --regex [search]   find commodities with names matching regex. Example: ca, d, "[cad]a"

get

Download historical data from investing.com. By default, the result is printed to the console. Use -f if you want the csv te be saved directly into a file.

  Options:
  
    -h, --help             output usage information
    -V, --version          output the version number
    -i --id [id]           id of the commodity to fetch
    -s --startdate [date]  start date in MM/dd/yyyy format.
    -e --enddate [date]    end date in MM/dd/yyyy format.
    -f --file [file]       result file. If none, the result will be printed to the console.
    -v --verbose           enable verbose mode.

Commodities

The program supports commodities from US and UK. If you need a commodity which is not listed by list, you can try to find its id in the investing.com page.

For example, to find the id corresponding to gold:

1. go to http://www.investing.com/commodities/gold;
2. open the developer console of your navigator;
3. in the html source file, search the string pair_id, for example: <div pair_id="8830">...</div>.

Here you go ! 8830 is the gold commodity id. You can not run investing.js get -i 8830.

Usually, commodities ids are between 8800-8999 or 950000-961999.