import requests import json import datetime print("hello") """ First pull data from yahoo api """ params = { #'period1' : '1753487940', #'period2' : '1753725600', 'interval' : '1d', 'range' : '1y', 'events' : 'div|split|earn', 'includePrePost' : 'false' } headers = {'User-agent' : 'fin-backtesting-proj'} r = requests.get("https://query2.finance.yahoo.com/v8/finance/chart/AAPL", headers=headers, params=params) print(r.url) print("status_code:\t", r.status_code) # decode the JSON response data into a Python object r.raise_for_status() # raises if error before parsing data_obj = r.json() timestamps = data_obj['chart']['result'][0]['timestamp'] close_prices = data_obj['chart']['result'][0]['indicators']['quote'][0]['close'] print('close_price len: ', len(close_prices), 'timestamps len: ', len(timestamps)) # save timestamps and close prices into separate files timestamps_encoded = json.dumps(timestamps) close_prices_encoded = json.dumps(close_prices) timestamps_file = open('timestamps.json', 'w') timestamps_file.truncate(0) # erase current content in file timestamps_file.write(timestamps_encoded) timestamps_file.close() close_prices_file = open('close_prices.json', 'w') close_prices_file.truncate(0) close_prices_file.write(close_prices_encoded) close_prices_file.close()