is a screener website that allow you to view the basic information of a company the company is searched by it's ticker and the information is gathered from yahoo finance the information is taken thanks to the yahooquery library the informations are stored in a database, everytime a ticker is searched the info are stored in the db if they are not already present. if they are the basic infos are taken from the db and updated to the current date.

this app is used inside the project NotFinancialAdvice and it need the following steps to be installed:

0. clone the repo inside the Django project and change the name of the app from NFA_screener to screener

1. inside settings.py insert 'screener' in the INSTALLED_APPS list

   INSTALLED_APPS = [
       ...
       'screener',
   ]
   

2. run the script archive_creator.sh inside the app to create the folder necessary to hold the files

3. call the collectstatic from manage.py

4. include the url.py file inside the app in the main project you may want to add some url path inside the ''

   path('', include(('screener.urls', 'screener'), namespace="screener")),

5. call the makemigrations / migrate from manage.py Run python manage.py migrate screener to create the screener models.

6. Start the development server and visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/ to create the models (you'll need the Admin app enabled).

7. Visit http://127.0.0.1:8000 to see the website

1. pandas
2. numpy
3. yahooquery

be sure to have them in the virtual env

if you want to use the URL links outside the app you need to use the namespace. it is always a good idea when having many apps inside a Django project to use the namespace. for example:

> <a href="{% url 'screener:URL' %}"</a>