LiveCandles

API for live OHLC feed

Installation

You can install project using pip:

pip install LiveCandles

Description

Use this API for getting live OHLC candle-stick for free, it will relay the data of time intervals from 5 to 59 minutes starting from the next mutiple for 5 minute.

It has two modes for getting data as shown below:

1. It simply web scraps the google finance webpage to get live current price and converts in to OHLC candle. Code for it is

data  = LiveCandles.ohlcStream('5minutes',indexCode = "NIFTY_50")

while True:
    price = data.stream()
    #use price as per your need
    print(price)

1. It will use multiprocessing to set open, high, low, close values simultaneously

from LiveCandles import ohlcStream

if __name__ == '__main__':    
    data = ohlcStream("5minutes", indexCode = "NIFTY_50")

    while True:
        price = (data.streamMP())
        #use price as per your need
        print(price)

Arguments:

1. First argument is interval should be specified as '5minutes' number can be anything from 5 to 59

2. indexCode(optional) to be specified to get index candle as per google finance code

3. stockCode(optional) to be specified to get stock candle as per google finance code

DISCLAIMER

Data generated is not very accurate, due to netwrok latency, call restriction. Avoid using for taking order placing decsions on it's basis. One can override getCurrentPrice() method for more reliable price fetching.