README.md

scrapy-finance

scrapy spiders to crawl the financial data pertinent to train word vectors.

List of sources

• bloomberg - Bloomberg news articles
• investopedia - Definitions of finance terms from investopedia.com
• wikipedia - Finance pages from wikipedia - all wiki pages reachable from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_finance with at most 2 hops.
• qplum - Investment articles from https://www.qplum.co/investing-library

How to use this

1. Install scrapy.

pip3 install scrapy

2. Run the scrapy crawl command.

(py3) hardik@shire:~/scrapy-finance$ scrapy crawl bloomberg

How to modify spiders for your use

Please look at the specific spider files like wikipedia.py. They are relatively easy to follow and modify.

.
├── LICENSE
├── README.md
├── scrapy.cfg
└── text
    ├── __init__.py
    ├── items.py
    ├── middlewares.py
    ├── pipelines.py
    ├── settings.py
    └── spiders
        ├── bloomberg.py
        ├── __init__.py
        ├── investopedia.py
        ├── qplum.py
        └── wikipedia.py

Notes

• The text data is written in the lower case at the moment in all spiders.
• This is not checked with python2.

Contributing

Please feel free to submit a pull request to add relevant spiders.

LICENSE

MIT