hartl3y94/stock-price-scraper

Web scraper utilizing scrapy to scrape live stock prices from the Nairobi Stock Exchange

Stock Price Scraper

Web scraper utilizing scrapy to scrape live stock prices from the Nairobi Stock Exchange. The prices are then saved in Postgres Database after each scrape, we use sqlalchemy as ORM and psycopg2 as database connector. The actual platform we are scraping is afx website.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Python and pip (I am currently using 3.9.2) Any version above 3.5 should work.
• An Africas Talking account.
  • Api Key and username from your account. Create an app and take note of the api key.
• Postgresql Database.
  • This could either be installed locally or via docker. This article is an awesome resource on how to get Postgresql and pgadmin4 installed as containers.