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Alpha Vantage - Isolate Stock Price
Using Python I can access most of the Alpha Vantage APIs and get the results either as a tuple or a dict. What I want is just the stock price at a point in time. With "global quote", for example, I get all the data but cannot parse or divide the tuple / dict into the individual items.
Has anyone done this? I'd be grateful to see the code.
The API returns the following data; it is type dict with len 1. What I need is the price (108.29) in a normal floating point variable.
(' data ', {u'Global Quote': {u'05. price': u'108.2900', u'08. previous close': u'107.2800', u'10. change percent': u'0.9415%', u'03. high': u'108.8800', u'07. latest trading day': u'2018-11-16', '}})
python-3.x alpha alphavantage
edited Nov 19 '18 at 22:12
Martin Evans
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Using Python I can access most of the Alpha Vantage APIs and get the results either as a tuple or a dict. What I want is just the stock price at a point in time. With "global quote", for example, I get all the data but cannot parse or divide the tuple / dict into the individual items.
Has anyone done this? I'd be grateful to see the code.
The API returns the following data; it is type dict with len 1. What I need is the price (108.29) in a normal floating point variable.
(' data ', {u'Global Quote': {u'05. price': u'108.2900', u'08. previous close': u'107.2800', u'10. change percent': u'0.9415%', u'03. high': u'108.8800', u'07. latest trading day': u'2018-11-16', '}})
python-3.x alpha alphavantage
edited Nov 19 '18 at 22:12
Martin Evans
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asked Nov 17 '18 at 21:09
Fred BFred B
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Have you read up on how to use tuples and dictionaries in Python? What's the specific problem you're having accessing the data you need?
– jonrsharpe
Nov 17 '18 at 21:22
I sure have. The API returns the following data; it is type 'dict' with len '1'. What I need is the price (108.29) in a normal floating point variable. (' data ', {u'Global Quote': {u'05. price': u'108.2900', u'08. previous close': u'107.2800', u'10. change percent': u'0.9415%', u'03. high': u'108.8800', u'07. latest trading day': u'2018-11-16', '}})
– Fred B
Nov 19 '18 at 0:53
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Using Python I can access most of the Alpha Vantage APIs and get the results either as a tuple or a dict. What I want is just the stock price at a point in time. With "global quote", for example, I get all the data but cannot parse or divide the tuple / dict into the individual items.
Has anyone done this? I'd be grateful to see the code.
The API returns the following data; it is type dict with len 1. What I need is the price (108.29) in a normal floating point variable.
(' data ', {u'Global Quote': {u'05. price': u'108.2900', u'08. previous close': u'107.2800', u'10. change percent': u'0.9415%', u'03. high': u'108.8800', u'07. latest trading day': u'2018-11-16', '}})
python-3.x alpha alphavantage
edited Nov 19 '18 at 22:12
Martin Evans
27.3k132953
asked Nov 17 '18 at 21:09
Fred BFred B
83
Using Python I can access most of the Alpha Vantage APIs and get the results either as a tuple or a dict. What I want is just the stock price at a point in time. With "global quote", for example, I get all the data but cannot parse or divide the tuple / dict into the individual items.
Has anyone done this? I'd be grateful to see the code.
The API returns the following data; it is type dict with len 1. What I need is the price (108.29) in a normal floating point variable.
(' data ', {u'Global Quote': {u'05. price': u'108.2900', u'08. previous close': u'107.2800', u'10. change percent': u'0.9415%', u'03. high': u'108.8800', u'07. latest trading day': u'2018-11-16', '}})
python-3.x alpha alphavantage
python-3.x alpha alphavantage
edited Nov 19 '18 at 22:12
Martin Evans
27.3k132953
asked Nov 17 '18 at 21:09
Fred BFred B
83
edited Nov 19 '18 at 22:12
Martin Evans
27.3k132953
asked Nov 17 '18 at 21:09
Fred BFred B
83
edited Nov 19 '18 at 22:12
Martin Evans
27.3k132953
edited Nov 19 '18 at 22:12
Martin Evans
27.3k132953
edited Nov 19 '18 at 22:12
Martin Evans
27.3k132953
27.3k132953
asked Nov 17 '18 at 21:09
Fred BFred B
83
asked Nov 17 '18 at 21:09
Fred BFred B
83
asked Nov 17 '18 at 21:09
Fred BFred B
83
83
1
Have you read up on how to use tuples and dictionaries in Python? What's the specific problem you're having accessing the data you need?
– jonrsharpe
Nov 17 '18 at 21:22
I sure have. The API returns the following data; it is type 'dict' with len '1'. What I need is the price (108.29) in a normal floating point variable. (' data ', {u'Global Quote': {u'05. price': u'108.2900', u'08. previous close': u'107.2800', u'10. change percent': u'0.9415%', u'03. high': u'108.8800', u'07. latest trading day': u'2018-11-16', '}})
– Fred B
Nov 19 '18 at 0:53
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Have you read up on how to use tuples and dictionaries in Python? What's the specific problem you're having accessing the data you need?
– jonrsharpe
Nov 17 '18 at 21:22
I sure have. The API returns the following data; it is type 'dict' with len '1'. What I need is the price (108.29) in a normal floating point variable. (' data ', {u'Global Quote': {u'05. price': u'108.2900', u'08. previous close': u'107.2800', u'10. change percent': u'0.9415%', u'03. high': u'108.8800', u'07. latest trading day': u'2018-11-16', '}})
– Fred B
Nov 19 '18 at 0:53
1
1
Have you read up on how to use tuples and dictionaries in Python? What's the specific problem you're having accessing the data you need?
– jonrsharpe
Nov 17 '18 at 21:22
Have you read up on how to use tuples and dictionaries in Python? What's the specific problem you're having accessing the data you need?
– jonrsharpe
Nov 17 '18 at 21:22
I sure have. The API returns the following data; it is type 'dict' with len '1'. What I need is the price (108.29) in a normal floating point variable. (' data ', {u'Global Quote': {u'05. price': u'108.2900', u'08. previous close': u'107.2800', u'10. change percent': u'0.9415%', u'03. high': u'108.8800', u'07. latest trading day': u'2018-11-16', '}})
– Fred B
Nov 19 '18 at 0:53
I sure have. The API returns the following data; it is type 'dict' with len '1'. What I need is the price (108.29) in a normal floating point variable. (' data ', {u'Global Quote': {u'05. price': u'108.2900', u'08. previous close': u'107.2800', u'10. change percent': u'0.9415%', u'03. high': u'108.8800', u'07. latest trading day': u'2018-11-16', '}})
– Fred B
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The data you have given appears to have a slight problem at the end (there is a trailing comma and open quote). Assuming that the actual data does not have this problem, you could extract the price into a float variable as follows:
data = (' data ', {u'Global Quote': {u'05. price': u'108.2900', u'08. previous close': u'107.2800', u'10. change percent': u'0.9415%', u'03. high': u'108.8800', u'07. latest trading day': u'2018-11-16'}})
price = float(data[1]['Global Quote']['05. price'])
print(price)
This would display the price as:
108.29
The API appears to be returing a tuple which consists of the word data and then a dictionary holding all the values. So first use [1] to access the dictionary. The Global Quote entry itself is a dictionary.
answered Nov 19 '18 at 22:22
Martin EvansMartin Evans
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Thanks - I hadn't considered that as a possibility, i.e., a dict within a tuple. I am new to both Linux and Python so I guess that's kind of an amateur error. Nevertheless, I really appreciate the time taken to respond. I hope to pay that back in the near future.
Just BTW, I notice w/Python if I code something wrong I sometimes don't get an error - exactly. For example, if I issue a print statement to debug and do not reference the above item correctly, the print command doesn't execute but I do not get an error code. In fact, code following the offensive print statement might also not execute; I might simply go to EOJ. Does that make sense? NB - I haven't compiled yet; still running in interpretive mode.
answered Nov 21 '18 at 17:50
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The data you have given appears to have a slight problem at the end (there is a trailing comma and open quote). Assuming that the actual data does not have this problem, you could extract the price into a float variable as follows:
data = (' data ', {u'Global Quote': {u'05. price': u'108.2900', u'08. previous close': u'107.2800', u'10. change percent': u'0.9415%', u'03. high': u'108.8800', u'07. latest trading day': u'2018-11-16'}})
price = float(data[1]['Global Quote']['05. price'])
print(price)
This would display the price as:
108.29
The API appears to be returing a tuple which consists of the word data and then a dictionary holding all the values. So first use [1] to access the dictionary. The Global Quote entry itself is a dictionary.
answered Nov 19 '18 at 22:22
Martin EvansMartin Evans
27.3k132953
add a comment |
The data you have given appears to have a slight problem at the end (there is a trailing comma and open quote). Assuming that the actual data does not have this problem, you could extract the price into a float variable as follows:
data = (' data ', {u'Global Quote': {u'05. price': u'108.2900', u'08. previous close': u'107.2800', u'10. change percent': u'0.9415%', u'03. high': u'108.8800', u'07. latest trading day': u'2018-11-16'}})
price = float(data[1]['Global Quote']['05. price'])
print(price)
This would display the price as:
108.29
The API appears to be returing a tuple which consists of the word data and then a dictionary holding all the values. So first use [1] to access the dictionary. The Global Quote entry itself is a dictionary.
answered Nov 19 '18 at 22:22
Martin EvansMartin Evans
27.3k132953
add a comment |
The data you have given appears to have a slight problem at the end (there is a trailing comma and open quote). Assuming that the actual data does not have this problem, you could extract the price into a float variable as follows:
data = (' data ', {u'Global Quote': {u'05. price': u'108.2900', u'08. previous close': u'107.2800', u'10. change percent': u'0.9415%', u'03. high': u'108.8800', u'07. latest trading day': u'2018-11-16'}})
price = float(data[1]['Global Quote']['05. price'])
print(price)
This would display the price as:
108.29
The API appears to be returing a tuple which consists of the word data and then a dictionary holding all the values. So first use [1] to access the dictionary. The Global Quote entry itself is a dictionary.
answered Nov 19 '18 at 22:22
Martin EvansMartin Evans
27.3k132953
The data you have given appears to have a slight problem at the end (there is a trailing comma and open quote). Assuming that the actual data does not have this problem, you could extract the price into a float variable as follows:
data = (' data ', {u'Global Quote': {u'05. price': u'108.2900', u'08. previous close': u'107.2800', u'10. change percent': u'0.9415%', u'03. high': u'108.8800', u'07. latest trading day': u'2018-11-16'}})
price = float(data[1]['Global Quote']['05. price'])
print(price)
This would display the price as:
108.29
The API appears to be returing a tuple which consists of the word data and then a dictionary holding all the values. So first use [1] to access the dictionary. The Global Quote entry itself is a dictionary.
answered Nov 19 '18 at 22:22
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answered Nov 19 '18 at 22:22
Martin EvansMartin Evans
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answered Nov 19 '18 at 22:22
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Thanks - I hadn't considered that as a possibility, i.e., a dict within a tuple. I am new to both Linux and Python so I guess that's kind of an amateur error. Nevertheless, I really appreciate the time taken to respond. I hope to pay that back in the near future.
Just BTW, I notice w/Python if I code something wrong I sometimes don't get an error - exactly. For example, if I issue a print statement to debug and do not reference the above item correctly, the print command doesn't execute but I do not get an error code. In fact, code following the offensive print statement might also not execute; I might simply go to EOJ. Does that make sense? NB - I haven't compiled yet; still running in interpretive mode.
answered Nov 21 '18 at 17:50
Fred BFred B
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Thanks - I hadn't considered that as a possibility, i.e., a dict within a tuple. I am new to both Linux and Python so I guess that's kind of an amateur error. Nevertheless, I really appreciate the time taken to respond. I hope to pay that back in the near future.
Just BTW, I notice w/Python if I code something wrong I sometimes don't get an error - exactly. For example, if I issue a print statement to debug and do not reference the above item correctly, the print command doesn't execute but I do not get an error code. In fact, code following the offensive print statement might also not execute; I might simply go to EOJ. Does that make sense? NB - I haven't compiled yet; still running in interpretive mode.
answered Nov 21 '18 at 17:50
Fred BFred B
83
add a comment |
Thanks - I hadn't considered that as a possibility, i.e., a dict within a tuple. I am new to both Linux and Python so I guess that's kind of an amateur error. Nevertheless, I really appreciate the time taken to respond. I hope to pay that back in the near future.
Just BTW, I notice w/Python if I code something wrong I sometimes don't get an error - exactly. For example, if I issue a print statement to debug and do not reference the above item correctly, the print command doesn't execute but I do not get an error code. In fact, code following the offensive print statement might also not execute; I might simply go to EOJ. Does that make sense? NB - I haven't compiled yet; still running in interpretive mode.
answered Nov 21 '18 at 17:50
Fred BFred B
83
Thanks - I hadn't considered that as a possibility, i.e., a dict within a tuple. I am new to both Linux and Python so I guess that's kind of an amateur error. Nevertheless, I really appreciate the time taken to respond. I hope to pay that back in the near future.
Just BTW, I notice w/Python if I code something wrong I sometimes don't get an error - exactly. For example, if I issue a print statement to debug and do not reference the above item correctly, the print command doesn't execute but I do not get an error code. In fact, code following the offensive print statement might also not execute; I might simply go to EOJ. Does that make sense? NB - I haven't compiled yet; still running in interpretive mode.
answered Nov 21 '18 at 17:50
Fred BFred B
83
answered Nov 21 '18 at 17:50
Fred BFred B
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answered Nov 21 '18 at 17:50
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Have you read up on how to use tuples and dictionaries in Python? What's the specific problem you're having accessing the data you need?
– jonrsharpe
Nov 17 '18 at 21:22
I sure have. The API returns the following data; it is type 'dict' with len '1'. What I need is the price (108.29) in a normal floating point variable. (' data ', {u'Global Quote': {u'05. price': u'108.2900', u'08. previous close': u'107.2800', u'10. change percent': u'0.9415%', u'03. high': u'108.8800', u'07. latest trading day': u'2018-11-16', '}})
– Fred B
Nov 19 '18 at 0:53