Python program to web scrape short percent of float for all SPX500 companies

Uses beautiful soup to web scrape data from http://shortsqueeze.com/. This script launches an automated chrome window to scrape data from short squeeze.com using tickers from the SPX500 wikipedia page. This program configures selenium's chrome webdrive to use Tor's (free browser) proxy. This enables us to get more than the limited daily quotes from short squeeze which are based on public I.P. address. Tor must be open while the program runs.

It outputs a file (result.csv) file in the directory from which the script was executed.

Example use

python shortScanner.py --outputFileName results.csv

Example results for ‎July ‎7, ‎2020.

Requirements

Install python 3.

Install Tor browser.

Install required python packages:

pip install urllib

pip install beautifulsoup4

pip install requests

pip install selenium

pip install pandas

Have TOR browser open while the script is running.