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MarketWatch API integration with Discord.py

A python discord bot that uses the MarketWatch API wrapper for interacting with the games section of MarketWatch.

Features

  • /price - Allow users to get the current price of a stock and a graph of that stocks highest prices for the past 5.
  • /leaderboard - Allows users to get a leaderboard of the top 20 players in the MarketWatch.com game.
  • Allows users to be ping when NYSE and NASDAQ opens and closes.
  • Periodically sends the current leaderboard of the MarketWatch.com game.

Setup

To setup the bot properly, make sure to specify:

  • TOKEN = "" - put in your discord bot token, you can get yours here: https://discord.com/developers/applications.
  • marketwatch = MarketWatch("email", "password") - put in your Marketwatch.com information to log into your Marketwatch.com account.
  • game_name = "" - put in the Marketwatch.com game that the bot will watch and get all it's data from.
  • console = - discord console channel id, where the bot sends all the errors and sends a message when it turns on.
  • leaderboard = - discord leaderboard channel id, where the current leaderboard is sent periodically.
  • server_id = - the main discord server where all the channels are.
  • NYSE - discord channel id where your "open" and "close" roles are pinged when NYSE and NASDAQ opens and closes.
  • open_role = discord role id which is pinged when NYSE and NASDAQ opens.
  • close_role = discord role id which is pinged when NYSE and NASDAQ closes.
  • OWNER = - put in your discord user id here.

Files and miscellaneous

  • stock_names_sort.py - queries the yahoo finance database for it's company stock name, for example: "Apple" --> "AAPL".
  • main.py - defines the discord bot, the roles and channels it uses, handles the front and backend.
  • sine_wave.jpg - an example of the output file when you search for the price with /price

"sine_wave.jpg"example

Libraries used:

  • discord.py - Discord bot.
  • datetime - time handiling.
  • pytz - Timezones.
  • asyncio - discord bot reconnection loop.
  • time - discord bot reconnection loop timeout.
  • marketwatch - Marketwatch api wrapper you can download here: https://github.com/kevindong/MarketWatch_API.
  • datetime - defines when the @task.loop() runs.
  • matplotlib.pyplot - Matplotlib for ploting stock prices on a graph.
  • yfinanc - Yahoo finance for getting market data.
  • requests - allows you to query the yahoo finance database. You can find more info on the MarketWatch API wrapper here: https://github.com/kevindong/MarketWatch_API.