README.md

Welcome to STOCK SCRAPPER

A program that scrapes Yahoo Finance and checks whether the stock have increased or decreased

Technologies Used

• Java 15
• Selenium
• Chrome Driver

How it works

• First of all, you have to add selenium jar files in the external libraries (you can download it from this link)

• Using ScheduledExecutorService, we created a task and scheduled it to run every two minutes

        public static void main(String []args) {
                ScheduledExecutorService exec =  Executors.newScheduledThreadPool(1) ;
                // do the scrapping every 5 minutes
                ScheduledFuture<?> scraper = exec.scheduleAtFixedRate(new ParallelStockScrapper(), 0, 2,TimeUnit.MINUTES );
                // set cancellation time, after 3 hours the program stops
                exec.schedule(new Runnable() {
                    public void run() { scraper.cancel(true); }
                },3,TimeUnit.HOURS);
            }

• The task is navigating to Yahoo Finance and scrapping the stocks table

    public void run() {
     
             /**
              * Settings for the chrome drive
              */
             System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Users\\User\\IdeaProjects\\StockScrapper\\driver\\chromedriver.exe");
             driver = new ChromeDriver();
             WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver,40);
     
             driver.navigate().to("https://finance.yahoo.com/most-active?offset=0&count=100");
     
             /**
             * You Can Check the rest of the code in the file ParallelStockScrapper.java
             **/
         }

For more optimisation, We included a ForkJoinTable, to divide the table between different threads. (Check the complete code in the ForkJoinTable.java file)

🤝 Contributing

Contributions, issues and feature requests are welcome!
Feel free to check issues page. You can also take a look at the contributing guide.

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