def __init__(self, ticker, screen):
self.ticker = ticker
self.screen = screen
self.screen_pairs = []
self.screen_table = ''
profile_url = "http://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=" + ticker
self.html = get_pretty_html( profile_url )
def get_ticker_article_age( sym ):
sym_url = 'http://seekingalpha.com/symbol/' + sym.lower()
html = get_pretty_html( sym_url )
begin = '<a href="/author/zetakap">'
end = '</li>'
author_content = find_between( html, begin, end )
if author_content == '':
return gmtime(0)
else:
begin = '</span>'
end = '<span class="bullet">'
date = find_between( author_content, begin, end )
date = date.strip()
c = pdc.Constants()
p = pdt.Calendar(c)
most_recent_pub_date = date.replace('on','',1).strip()
date = p.parse("this year")
result = p.parseDateText( " ".join( [ most_recent_pub_date, str( date[0].tm_year ) ] ) )
return result
def __init__(self, screen ):
self.screen = screen
pending_tickers = self.get_pending_tickers()
url = make_finviz_url( screen )
pretty_html = get_pretty_html( url )
self.tickers = []
counter = 0
max_len = random.randrange(6, 7)
while find_between( pretty_html, '<a href="quote.ashx?t=', '&' ):
if counter > max_len:
break
ticker = find_between( pretty_html, '<a href="quote.ashx?t=', '&' )
pretty_html = pretty_html.replace('<a href="quote.ashx?t=','',1)
if ticker in pending_tickers:
continue
if ticker in excluded_tickers:
continue
print "testing ticker " + ticker
# only take tickers older than 25 days
age = get_ticker_article_age( ticker )
if is_old_enough( age ):
self.tickers.append( ticker )
counter = counter + 1
