StockWatchJa: JamStockEx Scraper

The StockWatchJa: JamStockEx Scraper scrapes the Jamaica Stock Exchange website daily using Python and saves to a MongoDB collection. The data is then served as JSON by StockWatchJA: JamStockEx API at this URL.

The following stock data is scraped:

• All Listed Stocks
• Dividends pending payout dates
• Stock details:
  • Name
  • Instrument Code
  • Currency
  • Sector
  • Type
  • Website
  • Market
  • Volume Traded
  • Dollar Change
  • Market Price
  • Percentage Change

Requirements

Tool	Version	Source
Python	3.7.0	Python 3.7.0 Release
Windows OS	10	-

Create Secrets.json file

Create ".env" in application root folder

NODE_ENV=dev
DB_CONN_STR="<MongoDB-node-2.2.12-connection-string>"
DB_NAME=stockwatch
STOCK_COL=stock

Initialize database

python main.py