added cli arg parser; output format changed to CSV

src/stock-symbol-scraper/main.py

@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 import logging
 import re
+import csv
+import sys
 import asyncio
-
+from argparse import ArgumentParser
+from pathlib import Path
 from datetime import datetime
 from string import ascii_uppercase
 
@@ -11,7 +14,7 @@ from bs4.element import Tag, ResultSet
 
 
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
-log.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
+log.setLevel(logging.ERROR)
 ch = logging.StreamHandler()
 ch.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
 log.addHandler(ch)
@@ -105,10 +108,33 @@ async def get_all_data(asynchronous: bool = False) -> list[row_type]:
 
 
 def main() -> None:
-    data = asyncio.run(get_all_data(True))
-    for tup in data:
-        print(tup)
-    print(len(data), 'datasets')
+    parser = ArgumentParser(description="Scrape all stock symbols")
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '-v', '--verbose',
+        action='store_true',
+        help="If set, prints all sorts of stuff."
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '-S', '--sequential',
+        action='store_true',
+        help="If set, all requests are performed sequentially; otherwise async capabilities are used for concurrency."
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '-f', '--to-file',
+        type=Path,
+        help="Writes results to the specified destination file. If omitted results are printed to stdout."
+    )
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    if args.verbose:
+        log.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
+
+    data = asyncio.run(get_all_data(not args.sequential))
+
+    if args.to_file is None:
+        csv.writer(sys.stdout).writerows(data)
+    else:
+        with open(args.to_file, 'w') as f:
+            csv.writer(f).writerows(data)
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':