One of the most promising areas in the field of web crawling and big data is financial data collection. The retrieval of stock prices, market movements, and news related to economic data is crucial for developing bots dedicated to investment and governmental decision-making support. In this regard, efforts are underway to test the feasibility of creating a framework for financial big data. Along these lines, an experiment has been developed that demonstrates the potential of web scraping for financial data. Specifically, real-time market quotes are collected from the source Google Finance [http://www.google.com/finance]. This enables detailed tracking of the data and subsequent massive storage, correlation with other information, data, or news.
Fig.1. Real-time market monitoring via Google Finance
▶ Financial markets data collection test
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