baconian/advfn-reader

Fetches all quarterly data from advfn for a given ticker..

advfn-reader

Most websites only allow free access to the financials data from a couple of quarterly reports. AVDFN gives acces to several years or even decades of data from 10-Qs. This script is intended to make this data accessible in a useful manner, in this case pandas DataFrames.

get_quarts(ticker,exchange="NYSE", start_date = None, end=end_date=dt.datetime.today().date() )

Fetches a pandas DataFrame with all quarterly data from advfn for a given ticker.

parameters:

ticker: String - The ticker to fetch.

exchange: String, default "NYSE" - The exchange the stock is traded at. Defaults to a most likely one if not traded at given exchange.

start_date: String {'YYYY/MM/DD'}, default None - The date to start retrieving from. If non given the first available filing will be the start point.

end_date: String {'YYYY/MM/DD'}, default current-date - The date to end retrieving at. If non given the most recent filing will be the end point.

get_closest_quarter(target)

Returns the colsest quarter end date for a given date.

parameters:

target: Date - The date look up.