This program scrapes Biopharmcatalyst's PDUFA calendar, this is a calendar for every FDA approval of a drug for public companies. This program will scrap the next three months of PDUFA events, and exports it to a CSV file that we can furthermore filter and sort. After getting these PDUFA events, I build a scraper to scrape Yahoo Finance for other data points about their stock. Finally, I scrape the holdings of the Baker Brothers, a enormous fund that invests in pharmas.
When the program is run a progress bar will appear and when it is finished it will create a folder called "spreadsheets" and the .csv file will be stored there in the format of curated_list_YEAR_MONTH_DAY.csv in numerics.
This program runs in Python 3.8.2.
The source code here can be compiled to a executable and I have provided these executables on the releases page. You can also just run main.py if you wish.
Run the following inside of a terminal. After cloning the repository and moving to that directory.
pip install -r requirements.txt
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python main.py
Run the following to generate a executable for your platform, if you do this, you can always just double click the generated executable to run the program.
pip install -r requirements.txt
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pyinstaller main.py -F -n pharma_scraper -c
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If you are on linux omit the -c flag of the last command.
You will be able to see that a folder called dist was created and the executable is inside. If you are unable to run it or it opens a text editor, open a terminal in that directory and run this on macOS and linux: chmod +x pharma_scraper. You should be able to run the program now.
If you do not want to make a executable or run the program or clone anything. You can simply download my pre-made executables for Windows and macOS on the releases page. Unfortunately if you are on linux, you must create the executable yourself.