MarketWatch API integration with Discord.py

A python discord bot that uses the MarketWatch API wrapper for interacting with the games section of MarketWatch.

Features

• /price - Allow users to get the current price of a stock and a graph of that stocks highest prices for the past 5.
• /leaderboard - Allows users to get a leaderboard of the top 20 players in the MarketWatch.com game.
• Allows users to be ping when NYSE and NASDAQ opens and closes.
• Periodically sends the current leaderboard of the MarketWatch.com game.

Setup

To setup the bot properly, make sure to specify:

• TOKEN = "" - put in your discord bot token, you can get yours here: https://discord.com/developers/applications.
• marketwatch = MarketWatch("email", "password") - put in your Marketwatch.com information to log into your Marketwatch.com account.
• game_name = "" - put in the Marketwatch.com game that the bot will watch and get all it's data from.
• console = - discord console channel id, where the bot sends all the errors and sends a message when it turns on.
• leaderboard = - discord leaderboard channel id, where the current leaderboard is sent periodically.
• server_id = - the main discord server where all the channels are.
• NYSE - discord channel id where your "open" and "close" roles are pinged when NYSE and NASDAQ opens and closes.
• open_role = discord role id which is pinged when NYSE and NASDAQ opens.
• close_role = discord role id which is pinged when NYSE and NASDAQ closes.
• OWNER = - put in your discord user id here.

Files and miscellaneous

• stock_names_sort.py - queries the yahoo finance database for it's company stock name, for example: "Apple" --> "AAPL".
• main.py - defines the discord bot, the roles and channels it uses, handles the front and backend.
• sine_wave.jpg - an example of the output file when you search for the price with /price

Libraries used:

• discord.py - Discord bot.
• datetime - time handiling.
• pytz - Timezones.
• asyncio - discord bot reconnection loop.
• time - discord bot reconnection loop timeout.
• marketwatch - Marketwatch api wrapper you can download here: https://github.com/kevindong/MarketWatch_API.
• datetime - defines when the @task.loop() runs.
• matplotlib.pyplot - Matplotlib for ploting stock prices on a graph.
• yfinanc - Yahoo finance for getting market data.
• requests - allows you to query the yahoo finance database. You can find more info on the MarketWatch API wrapper here: https://github.com/kevindong/MarketWatch_API.