Unlocking the Potential of Data Scraping: A Profitable Guide to Investing in Stocks
Originally published as https://www.octoparse.com/blog/scraping-and-cleansing-yahoo-finance-data# The stock market must be one of the most fast-changing things in the world. It tends to react quickly to various factors, like inflation concerns and consumer spending. Especially during the pandemic, its change has been more dramatic than ever. Investors are experiencing ups and downs. How can you make a smarter investment if you are one of them? It is likely that data will provide the useful information you need to make better decisions. In this article, we'll introduce how you can scrape data from the stock quotes page on Yahoo! Finance . After that, we'll clean up the scraped data and determine how many stocks are seeing their values rise and vice versa. Table of Contents Why scrape data from Yahoo! Finance Extract data - collect data easily by Octoparse Clean data - make sure raw data is accurate and consistency Analyze data - classify each stock and add up the numbe...