Scraping Articles About Stocks
See recommended books here. The following article will show you an example of how to scrape articles about stocks from the Web using Python 3. Specifically, we'll be looking at articles linked from http://www.nasdaq.com. If you're not familiar with list comprehensions, you may want to check this, as we'll be using them in our code. Initial, Specific Example Let's start with a specific stock -- say, Netflix, for example. Articles linked to a specific stock ticker from Nasdaq's website have the following pattern: http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/TICKER/news-headlines, where TICKER is replaced with whatever ticker you want. In our case, we will start by dealing specifically with Netflix's (NFLX) stock. So our site of interest is: http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/nflx/news-headlines The first step is to load the requests and BeautifulSoup packages. Here, we'll also set the variable site equal to…