flerpan01/interest-rates

Save the currect mortgage interest rate (swedbank). Use github action to schedule this daily.

# project tree

project/
|-- .github
|   `-- workflows
|       `-- schedule.yml
|-- README.md
|-- requirements.txt
|-- swedbank.csv
`-- webscrape.py

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The requirements.txt contains all the libraries used for the project.

# To generate requirements.txt

pip3 install pipreqs
python -m pipreqs.pipreqs .

The webscrape.py extract the current mortgage interest rate and saves it into swedbank.csv, that can be used for further analysis.

The .github/workflows/schedule.yml checks the homepage every work day (twice to be sure).

Github Actions has a built in function for schedule executable actions; CI/CD (Continous Integration and Continuous Deployment).

# generate the file

mkdir -p .github/workflows
touch .github/workflows/schedule.yml

Paste the the following into it:

name: check homepage

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 10,17 * * 1-5' # mon - fri @ 10 am & 5 pm (bank hours)

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
    - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
      with:
        python-version: '3.12'
        cache: 'pip' # caching pip dependencies
    - run: pip install -r requirements.txt
    
    - name: check homepage
      run: |
        python webscrape.py