datawrestler / after-hours

Obtain pre market and after hours stock prices for a given symbol

Read me for afterhours package

Python module afterhours can retrieve pre-market and after-hours trading prices from Nasdaq for a given stock symbol

-Created by Jason Lewris

-License: The MIT License

-Developer Home Page: 'https://github.com/datawrestler'

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Dependencies

• Python (>=2.6 or >= 3.5)
• beautifulsoup4 (>= 4.6.0)
• requests (>= 2.18.4)
• pandas (>= 0.20.3)
• lxml (>= 4.1.0)

Valuable Links

• Official source code repo: https://github.com/datawrestler/after-hours
• Issue tracking: https://github.com/datawrestler/after-hours/issues
• Download releases: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/afterhours

Method Overview

Method Name	Description
AH.getdata(datatype='highprice)	Returns high market price
AH.getdata(datatype='lowprice')	Returns low market price
AH.getdata(datatype='volume')	Returns total market volume
AH.getdata(datatype='hightime')	Returns datetime of high price
AH.getdata(datatype='lowtime')	Returns datetime of low price
AH.getdata(datatype='mktclose')	Returns market close price
AH.secure_all()	Returns dataframe with all activity
AH.run_every()	Updates all data points continuosly

Installation

Installation is done using pip install:

pip install afterhours

Alternative installation can be done by downloading the source files directly from github, navigating to the directory through terminal and running the following:

python setup.py install

Note

The source file can be downloaded here: https://github.com/datawrestler/after-hours/tarball/0.2.1

After installation, the package is ready for use. Simply import it into your python script with the following:

from afterhours.afterhours import AfterHours

Source

The latest source code can be checked out with the following command:

git clone https://github.com/datawrestler/after-hours.git

Examples

from afterhours.afterhours import AfterHours

# AFTER HOURS TRADING DATA
AH = AfterHours('aapl', typeof = 'after')

# get the low price from after hours trading
print(AH.getdata(datatype='lowprice'))
# 102.18

# get the high price of after hours trading
print(AH.getdata(datatype='highprice'))
# 109.055

# get the timestamp of after hours high trade
print(AH.getdata(datatype='hightime'))
# '12/15/2017 18:58:46 PM'

print(AH.getdata(datatype='lowtime'))
# '12/15/2017 19:58:46 PM'

# get all data points for after hours trading
print(AH.secure_all())
# Pandas DataFrame

# PRE HOURS TRADING DATA
# get pre hours trading info for apple
AH = AfterHours('aapl', typeof='pre')

# get the low price from pre hours trading
print(AH.getdata(datatype='lowprice'))
# 102.18

# get the high price from pre hours trading
print(AH.getdata(datatype='highprice'))
# 109.055

# get the timestamp for lowest trade
print(AH.getdata(datatype='lowtime'))
# '12/15/2017 18:58:46 PM'

# get the timestamp for highest time trade
print(AH.getdata(datatype='hightime'))
# '12/15/2017 19:58:46 PM'

# secure all pre hours trading data
print(AH.secure_all())
# Pandas DataFrame

Please add any questions, comments, concerns to the issues tab on Github for the project! I look forward to seeing this package built out further in future releases.

after-hours's Issues

Is this module still working?

Hi, I wonder if the module is still working?
I am trying to install the package using pip3 install afterhours, and the package is installed and I can tell that by the message in the console "Requirement already satisfied: afterhours in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages (0.2.1)"
However, when I tried to import the module by from afterhours.afterhours import AfterHours, python complains "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'afterhours'". BTW, I am usnig python 3.8
Thanks.

Automated testing

You should checkout out using https://travis-ci.org/ to do automated testing. Whenever you commit changes to code, it runs tests and can send an email if something fails. It can be a little tricky making sure the test server has the right dependencies though. Or least I had trouble doing that in python.

can't install it for python 3.9

trying the pip install afterhours command on my terminal (Mac)
but when I try to use it python says candy find the module.
any help? is this abandoned project ? someone knows alternatives ?

More elegant handling of no data available in pre or after hours trading

More informative break indicating that no pre or after hours trading data is available. The request will result in an ok response as there is a page there, however, data will not be available in many cases. Need to alert user to this and prevent additional methods from being run.

Historical data

I just started using this, great work. I am wondering if there is any way to get historical data, for example if I could get a data frame with a week's worth of after hours trading data for AAPL or whatever.

Is this still working?

For some reason I pip install it fine, but it says the no module named afterhours.

Any idea?