Reddit-Stock-Bot

A simple Reddit bot that can be called to proivde information on a specific stock.

How does it work?

Call

The syntax is simple, to retrive information about a stock simply place !stock AAPL somewhere in your Reddit comment. AAPL can obviously be replaced by and other stock on any exchange (GOOG, AMZN, MSFT, etc).

Response

The bot will respond with a host of information on the stock. Below is an example of a response for the comment !stock AAPL.

Up to date stock info for $AAPL (Apple Inc.):
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Price: $119.78
Open: $119.40
Change: -0.21 (-0.18%)
Volume: 25,590,494.00
Mkt Cap: 638.70B
Average (50 day): 115.59
Exchange: NMS
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Step by step process

1. Creates a database to store comment IDs (so as not to reply to the same comment twice)
2. Iterates through every comment in /r/all over and over until it finds a comment with !stock
3. Checks the database to make sure the ID isn't a duplicate, if not it will add the comment ID to the database
4. Isolates the stock symbol following !stock (ex. !stock AAPL would isolate AAPL)
5. Gather information about the stock specified via yahoo_finance
6. Reply to the comment with all information pertaining to the specific stock
7. Repeat

Requirements

Use pip to install the following packages/modules:

1. praw: pip install praw

2. yahoo_finance: pip install yahoo_finance

3. sqlalchemy: pip install sqlalchemy

4. time: (built into Python 3.X)

5. datetime: (built into Python 3.X)

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Enjoy!