Create csv file ordered with highest yield dividend paying stock

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For this script to work Yahoo Finance is needed. It can be easily installed with pip. Stock tickers are taken from a file called tickers.txt.

#!/usr/bin/env python

import time
from yahoo_finance import Share

dict = {}
f = open("tickers.txt", "r")
for ticker in f.readlines():
        dividend = Share(ticker).get_dividend_yield()
        if dividend is not None:
                print ticker.rstrip()+": "+dividend
                if float(dividend) > 0:
                        dict[float(dividend)] = ticker.rstrip()
f.close()

filename = "dividends-"+time.strftime("%Y%m%d")+".csv"
f = open(filename, "a")
f.write("Ticker, Dividend Yield, Dividend Share, Stock Price\n")
print "Ticker; Dividend Yield; Dividend Share; Stock Price\n"
for k in reversed(sorted(dict.keys())):
        escribir = dict[k]+","+str(k)+","+str(float(Share(dict[k]).get_dividend_share()))+","+str(float(Share(dict[k]).get_price()))+"\n"
        print dict[k]+";"+str(k)+";"+Share(dict[k]).get_dividend_share()+";"+Share(dict[k]).get_price()
        f.write(escribir)
f.close()

When done it creates a csv (named dividends-YYYYMMDD.csv) file ordered by highest dividend yield paying stocks.

00:55:40 [me@server Finance]$ head -5 dividends-20160414.csv
Ticker, Dividend Yield, Dividend Share, Stock Price
GLBL,44.0,1.1,2.64
CLM,29.7,4.42,15.624
XRDC,22.99,0.6,2.65
CRF,22.1,3.98,16.75
00:55:49 [me@server Finance]$

Python mechanize to automate WordPress login

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I had to play around with Mechanize lib to automate wordpress login. Proved out to be pretty handy.

#!/usr/bin/env python

from mechanize import Browser #pip install mechanize

br = Browser()
br.set_handle_robots(False)
br.addheaders = [("User-agent","Python Script using mechanize")]

sign_in = br.open("https://www.wordpress.com/wp-login.php")  #the login url

br.select_form(nr = 0) #accessing form by their index. Since we have only one form in this example, nr =0.
br["log"] = "user@domain" #the key "username" is the variable that takes the username/email value
br["pwd"] = "passwd"    #the key "password" is the variable that takes the password value

logged_in = br.submit()   #submitting the login credentials

logincheck = logged_in.read()  #reading the page body that is redirected after successful login

print logged_in.code   #print HTTP status code(200, 404...)
print logged_in.info() #print server info
#print logincheck #printing the body of the redirected url after login

Execution:

user@server: ~/Python $ python wordpress-login.py 
200
Server: nginx
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2016 16:45:40 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 5762
Connection: close
Vary: Accept-Encoding
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
X-ac: 1.ams _dfw
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=15552000
X-UA-Compatible: IE=Edge

user@server: ~/Python $

If you uncomment the last line in the script above it would print out the HTML code of the logged in page.