NSE Tools In Python

About NSE

NSE (National Stock Exchange) of India Limited is the advanced stock exchange of India. It is located in Mumbai, Maharastra and It was organized in 1992. It was organized as the first dematerialized electronic exchange in the country.

The nsetools is defined as the library that is used for getting real-time data from the National Stock Exchange of India. It is used in different kinds of projects which need to fetches live quotes for a specific stock or indexes and developing large data sets for performing data analytics.

Command-line interface applications can be also built for providing the live market details at a very fast speed and it can be much faster than any browser. The data accuracy is perfect as provided on http://www.nseindia.com.

We can easily install nsetools by using the following command 

pip install nsetools

Example of creating a Nse object

In this example, we are creating a Nse object which returns the driver class for National Stock Exchange.

Example –

# import nse from nse tools

from nsetools import Nse

# Now, creating a Nse object

nse = Nse()

# printing the Nse object

print(nse)

Output:

Driver Class for National Stock Exchange (NSE)

Example of getting information of a company

Here, we are going to retrieve the information of a specific company and display the buying price of company shares.

# Code for getting information

# of company shares

# import nse from nse tools

from nsetools import Nse

# creating a Nse object

nse = Nse()

# getting quote of the HDFC

quote = nse.get_quote('hdfc')

# printing the name of company

print(quote['companyName'])

# printing the buying price of company shares

print("Buy Price : " + str(quote['buyPrice1']))

Output:

HDFC

Buy Price: 2818.10

Example of getting average trade price

We can also get the average price of any company. In this example we are trying to get the average share price of a company.

Example –

# Code for getting information

# of company shares

# import nse from nse tools

from nsetools import Nse

# creating a Nse object

nse = Nse()

# getting quote of the HDFC

quote = nse.get_quote('hdfc')

# printing company name

print(quote['companyName'])

# printing the average price of company shares

print("Average Price : " + str(quote['averagePrice']))

Output:

HDFC

Average Price: 2833.94

Conclusion

In the above article, we have studied the nsetools module in Python. Also, we have seen how to get the information of a company shares.