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flaskFinancial

Flask Financial Web Application Overview This is a web application built using Python FLask that allows users to submit a stock ticker and view market data and financial news articles Features Enter a stock ticker to get stock data, including open price, high price, low price, close price, and volume. View a candlestick chart fot he stock's price movement over a selected time period. Fetch and display financial news headlines.

Getting Started To run the web application locally, follow these steps:

  1. Clone the repository to your local machine: git clone https://github.com/nateawest/flaskFinancial.git cd flaskFinancial

  2. pip install -r requirements.txt

  3. Set up your API key:

    Create a .env file in the root directory of the project. Add your API key to the .env file (e.g., API_KEY=your_api_key_here). Make sure to add .env to your .gitignore file to keep it private.

  4. Run the Flask application: flask run

  5. Open your web browser and visit http://127.0.0.1:5000/ to access the application.

Technologies Used

Python 3.5+ Flask micro web framework Plotly library for creating interactive visualizations Pandas library for data manipulation Jinja2 templating engine for HTML templates