dolarPy

Checks USD/PYG exchange rate from several sites, with a calculator, RESTful API and a twitter bot

Scraper: Checks USD/PYG exchange rate from several sites every 10 minutes, saves the info in a json file
Webservice: Flask app to serve the API and display the main website with the calculator
TwitterBot: Reads the webservice output and tweet it(in a human readable format)

Documentation in progress

Requirements

Python 2.7+ or 3.5+
BeautifulSoup4
Flask
Tweepy

Install

git clone git@github.com:melizeche/dolarPy.git
cd dolarPy
python3 -m venv env
# if venv module is not installed install with `sudo apt install python3-venv`
source env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
crontab -e (add coti.py) // See example below
python cotiapp.py

On macOS High Sierra with python3 (also most linux distros)

# pip3 is installed with Python3
pip3 install virtualenv
# creating the virtualenv
virtualenv -p python3 env
# activate the virtualenv:
source env/bin/activate
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
# and the run
# if you need to deactivate the virtualenv:
deactivate

Crontab format and example

MIN HOUR DAYofMONTH MONTH DAYofWEEK PYTHONPATH SCRIPT

So for check/update the exchange rate every 10 minutes between 6am and 8pm on weekdays

*/10 6-20 * * 1-5 /apps/dolarPy/env/bin/python /apps/dolarPy/coti.py

And for tweet the exchange rate at 8am, 12pm and 6pm on weekdays

0 8,12,18 * * 1-5 /apps/dolarPy/env/bin/python /apps/dolarPy/single_tweet_bot.py

Contributing

If it is a new feature, before contributing, open an issue and ask if your functionality is needed by the project.

Fork it!
Create your feature branch: git checkout -b my-new-feature
Commit your changes: git commit -am 'Add some feature'
Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-feature
Submit a pull request :D

Author

Marcelo Elizeche Landó https://github.com/melizeche

Contributors / Thanks

Alejo Carballude https://github.com/AlejoAsd
Carlos Carvallo https://github.com/carloscarvallo
Carlos Laspina https://github.com/claspina
Carlos Vallejos https://github.com/cabupy
Christian Zelaya https://github.com/eduzetapy
Diego Díaz https://github.com/berithpy
Diego Zacarías https://github.com/zv3
Ivan Koop https://github.com/ivankoop
Matías Sánchez https://github.com/MatiSanchez25
Mauricio Medina https://github.com/mauri-medina
Taras Samoilenko https://github.com/cos1715
Alcides Rivarola https://github.com/alcides29
Lucas Ginard https://github.com/LucasGinard
Padaleiana https://github.com/padaleiana
nestorcde https://github.com/nestorcde

TODO(APIv2)

~Better~ Documentation
Add more currencies
Databases support
Historical data API endpoint

License

This project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License - see the LICENSE.txt file for details