Motley-Fool-Scraper

This is a simple educational scraper for collecting Earnings Announcement Transcripts from fool.com (only page 1).

This package was developed for the purpose of Web Scraping with Python Workshop at Florida Atlantic University - October 2022.

Disclaimer

DO NOT ABUSE THIS SCRAPER.

This scraper was developed for educational purposes only and serves no other purposes. The Motley Fool Terms of Use prohibits scraping and I make no representation that your account won't be banned if you use this program. Furthermore, should I be contacted by The Motley Fool with a request to remove this repo, I will do so immediately.

About

This scraper collects the earnings announcements of the first page only.

Installation

First, make sure that you're using Python 3.7+.

1. Clone or download this repository.
2. Run pip install -r requirements.txt inside this repo. Consider doing this inside of a Python virtual environment.
3. It is highly recommended (but not required) that you use a virtual environment for your project.

Usage

usage: Motley-Scraper.py 

Note

• This module uses webdriver-manager, which handles chromedriver versions automatically.
• Again, this is for educational purposes only and nothing more.