tiingo_prices
A CLI tool to get a close of day price and annual dividends for a set of tickers. Uses the tiingo python API.
- Free software: MIT license
Features
- Uses the tiingo python API to obtain most recent closing prices for a number of tickers. The tickers being specified in a text file, one ticker per line.
- Last years dividends are also obtained and calculated for each ticker.
- Output is either written to stdout or to a specified file. Output is written in CSV format with Ticker,Price,Dividend on each line of the file.
Installation
pip install tiingo_pricesUsage
Set the environment variable TIINGO_API_KEY to the API key associated with your tiingo account.
export TIINGO_API_KEY='YourTiingoAPIKey'For these close of day prices and divdends the API key provided with the free "starter" account will work.
$ tiingo_prices -h
usage: tiingo_prices [-h] [--output_file OUTPUT_FILE] [--nyse_pref][--version] ticker_file
Returns the most recent closing prices and last years dividends for stocks
positional arguments:
ticker_file Ticker file name: One ticker per line
optional arguments:
-h, --help Show this help message and exit.
--output_file OUTPUT_FILE
Output file name: Default writes to stdout.
--nyse_pref Attempt to recognize NYSE Preferred ticker symbols
and convert to tiingo friendly format. Warning may
produce incorrect results for non NYSE stocks with PR
in their ticker name.
--version Show program's version number and exit.Credits
This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.
