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 # Stock Symbol Scraper
 
-This is the readme
+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.
+
+At this time the scraper performs this task purely **sequentially**. Asynchronous HTTP requests to drastically speed up the process will be implemented soon.
+
+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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+beautifulsoup4
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+-r common.txt
+coverage
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