Creation of basic "stock-program"
It's always best to use the provided API if you get all the information you need from it. If the API doesn't exist or is not good enough, then you go on the scraping path and it usually is more work than using API.
So I would definitely use try using APIs first.
i'm relatively new to python, hence the perhaps low level of my question. Anyway, i am trying to create a basic program for just displaying a couple of key statistics for different stocks (beta-value, 30-day high/low, p/e, p/s etc...). I have the GUI finished, but i'm not sure how to proceed with my project. Have been researching for a few hours but can't seem to decide which way to go.
Would you recommend HTML-scraping or yahoo/google finance API or anything else for downloading the data? After i have it downloaded i am pretty much just going to print it on the GUI.