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# Stock Symbol Scraper
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Scrapes the entire list of stocks off of [MarketWatch.com](https://www.marketwatch.com/tools/markets/stocks/a-z/), which includes company name, stock symbol, country, exchange, and sector (if available).
**NOTE**: No prices or financials of any kind are collected.
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Asynchronous HTTP requests are currently used by default.
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This is not intended to be run continuously since the data gathered this way will rarely change.
### Dependencies
- [Python](https://www.python.org/) 3.7+
Should run on most Linux/Windows systems. Tested on Arch and Windows 10.
### Building
Clone this repo, install `build` via pip, then run `pip -m build`
from the repository's root directory. This should produce a `dist/`
subdirectory with a wheel (build) and archive (source) distribution.
The resulting `whl`-file can be installed via `pip install path/dist/***.whl`.
### Running
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