import pandas as pd import requests from bs4 import BeautifulSoup from datetime import datetime, timedelta from time import sleep from typing import Generator def convert_datetime_to_url_format(date: datetime) -> str: return date.strftime("%b%d.%Y").lower() def scrape_news(date: datetime) -> pd.DataFrame: base_url = "https://www.forexfactory.com/calendar" formatted_date = convert_datetime_to_url_format(date) url = f"{base_url}?day={formatted_date}" # Set headers to mimic a web browser. headers = { "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64)" } response = requests.get(url, headers=headers) if response.status_code != 200: print(f"Failed to retrieve news. Status code: {response.status_code}") return soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'html.parser') rows = soup.find_all("tr", class_="calendar__row") previous_time = None times = [] currencies = [] titles = [] for row in rows: try: time = row.find("td", class_="calendar__cell calendar__time").text.strip() currency = row.find("td", class_="calendar__cell calendar__currency").text.strip() title = row.find("span", class_="calendar__event-title").text.strip() # If the time is not present, use the previous time. if not time: time = previous_time else: previous_time = time print(f"Time: {time}") print(f"Currency: {currency}") print(f"Title: {title}") print("---------------------------") times.append(time) currencies.append(currency) titles.append(title) except AttributeError: print("Failed to scrape the row") continue news_data = pd.DataFrame({"Time": times, "Currency": currencies, "Title": titles}) news_data['Date'] = date.strftime('%Y-%m-%d') news_data = news_data[['Date', 'Time', 'Currency', 'Title']] return news_data def scrape_news_in_range(start_date: datetime, end_date: datetime) -> Generator[pd.DataFrame, None, None]: current_date = start_date while current_date <= end_date: print(f"Scraping data for {current_date.date}") news_data = scrape_news(current_date) yield news_data current_date += timedelta(days=1) sleep(3) # Play nice with the server. if __name__ == '__main__': start_date = datetime(2023, 10, 25) end_date = datetime(2023, 10, 25) scrape_news_in_range(start_date, end_date) for news_data in scrape_news_in_range(start_date, end_date): print(news_data)