Stock Scrape

Author: Rebecca Weiss

Purpose

R package to scrape / clean historical stock prices

Usage

To scrape data, use scrapestock function with the url to historical data. For example: Use function to get data from Apple, Tesla, Amazon, and Netflix

tsla <- scrapestock('https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TSLA/history?p=TSLA')
aapl <- scrapestock('https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL/history?p=AAPL')
nflx <- scrapestock('https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/NFLX/history?p=NFLX')
amzn <- scrapestock('https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AMZN/history?p=AMZN')