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qifengwu
qifengwu

Reputation: 129

Scraping dynamic information of stock data using Python

I am trying to use Python to scrap dynamic stock information from a Chinese website :

http://vip.stock.finance.sina.com.cn/mkt/#cyb_root

However, I am a newer to Python. So can someone give me a hand for this? Thanks so much.

All I wanna do is scraping the HTML dynamic data from the above website.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1171

Answers (2)

surfeurX
surfeurX

Reputation: 1252

I tried your website and in your case it's simpler to do the crawler with a browser automation tool like selenium, here is working example for sina.com.cn:

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("http://vip.stock.finance.sina.com.cn/mkt/#cyb_root")
rows = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//div[@id='tbl_wrap']//tbody/tr")
for row in rows:
    name = row.find_element_by_xpath("./th[@class='sort_down']/a").text
    values = [v.text for v in row.find_elements_by_xpath("./td[@class='colorize']")]
    print "%s : %s" % (name, values)
driver.close()

if you run this script, you'll get:

$ python sina_com.py
sz300001 : [u'16.51', u'+0.64', u'+4.033%', u'16.51', u'16.52', u'15.87', u'15.86', u'16.58', u'15.80']
sz300002 : [u'--', u'0.00', u'0.000%', u'0.00', u'0.00', u'19.34', u'0.00', u'0.00', u'0.00']
sz300003 : [u'10.86', u'-0.05', u'-0.458%', u'10.85', u'10.86', u'10.91', u'10.98', u'10.98', u'10.59']
sz300004 : [u'22.86', u'+1.21', u'+5.589%', u'22.86', u'22.87', u'21.65', u'21.74', u'22.98', u'21.10']
sz300005 : [u'10.91', u'+0.35', u'+3.314%', u'10.91', u'10.94', u'10.56', u'10.51', u'10.99', u'10.51']
.....

:) good luck

Upvotes: 1

surfeurX
surfeurX

Reputation: 1252

You can use http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/ or http://doc.scrapy.org/en/0.16/.

If you want to follow lots of links or you need to crawl differents types on objects. I highly recommand scrapy. If you need an exemple for your website let me know, both libraries are very simple to use.

Upvotes: 1

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