A bash script to download and process historic stock price data.
This script establishes an interactive command line in which the user can input the year and month of a specific stock. Then it creates a txt file including the stock transaction prices of that month in the current folder.
This script use another bash script get-yahoo-quotes to download Yahoo historical quotes using the new cookie authenticated site. Pay tribute to the author Brad Lucas.
./stock-watcher.sh
This will bring up an interactive command line. Then enter the stock symbol, the month and the year, for example:
AAPL 10 2019
Then the script will create a txt file in the current folder including the stock transcation prices of Apple Inc. in 2019/10. The txt filename is in the format of StockSymbol_Month_Year.txt
, for example AAPL_10_2019.txt
.
The output file including two rows, first the Date and second the Adjusted Closing Price in EUR, for example:
Date Adjusted Closing Price / ¢
2019-10-31 226.372
2019-10-30 221.367
2019-10-29 221.394
2019-10-28 226.636
2019-10-25 224.388
2019-10-24 221.658
2019-10-23 221.294
2019-10-22 218.364
2019-10-21 218.864
2019-10-18 215.133
2019-10-17 214.105
2019-10-16 213.277
2019-10-15 214.141
2019-10-14 214.642
2019-10-11 214.951
2019-10-10 209.382
2019-10-09 206.597
2019-10-08 204.204
2019-10-07 206.625
2019-10-04 206.579
2019-10-03 200.946
2019-10-02 199.254
2019-10-01 204.377
Press Ctrl+C
to stop and exit at any time.