yfapi.h

#include <string.h>
#include <curl/curl.h>
#include <ctime>
//#include <DataTable/DataTable.hpp>
#include <iomanip>
#include <sstream>
#include <iostream>
#include <stdio.h>

#include "Interval.h"

class yfapi
{
    class YahooFinanceAPI
    {
        public:
            YahooFinanceAPI();
            void set_interval(Interval interval);
            void set_col_name(std::string col_name);
            //datatable::DataTable get_ticker_data(std::string ticker, std::string start_date, std::string end_date, bool keep_file=false);
            std::string download_ticker_data(std::string ticker, std::string start_date, std::string end_date);

        private:
            std::string _base_url;
            Interval _interval;
            std::string _col_name;

            std::string build_url(std::string ticker, std::string start_date, std::string end_date);
            bool string_replace(std::string& str, const std::string from, const std::string to);
            std::string timestamp_from_string(std::string date);
            void download_file(std::string url, std::string filename);
    };

    YahooFinanceAPI::YahooFinanceAPI()
    {
        this->_base_url =
            "https://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v7/finance/download/{ticker}?period1={start_time}&period2={end_time}&interval={interval}&events=history";
        this->_interval = DAILY;
        this->_col_name = "Open";
    }

    std::string YahooFinanceAPI::timestamp_from_string(std::string date)
    {
        struct std::tm time = {0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0};
        std::istringstream ss(date);
        ss >> std::get_time(&time, "%Y-%m-%d");
        if(ss.fail())
        {
            std::cerr  << "ERROR: Cannot parse date string (" << date <<"); required format %Y-%m-%d" << std::endl;
            exit(1);
        }
        time.tm_hour = 0;
        time.tm_min = 0;
        time.tm_sec = 0;
        std::time_t epoch = std::mktime(&time);

        return std::to_string(epoch);
    }

    bool YahooFinanceAPI::string_replace(std::string& str, const std::string from, const std::string to)
    {
        size_t start = str.find(from);
        if(start == std::string::npos)
        {
            return false;
        }
        str.replace(start, from.length(), to);
        return true;
    }

    std::string YahooFinanceAPI::build_url(std::string ticker, std::string start, std::string end)
    {
        std::string url = this->_base_url;
        string_replace(url, "{ticker}", ticker);
        string_replace(url, "{start_time}", timestamp_from_string(start));
        string_replace(url, "{end_time}", timestamp_from_string(end));
        string_replace(url, "{interval}", get_api_interval_value(this->_interval));
        return url;
    }


    void YahooFinanceAPI::set_interval(Interval interval)
    {
        this->_interval = interval;
    }

    void YahooFinanceAPI::set_col_name(std::string name)
    {
        this->_col_name = name;
    }

    void YahooFinanceAPI::download_file(std::string url, std::string filename)
    {
        CURL *curl;
        FILE *fp;
        CURLcode res;
        curl = curl_easy_init();
        if (curl)
        {
            fp = fopen(filename.c_str(), "wb");
            curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, url.c_str());
            curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, NULL);
            curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, fp);
            res = curl_easy_perform(curl);

            /* always cleanup */
            curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
            fclose(fp);
        }
    }

    /*
     * Returns a DataTable containing data downloaded from YahooFinance.
     * By default this method will delete the tmp file created by the
     * download.
     */
//    datatable::DataTable YahooFinanceAPI::get_ticker_data(std::string ticker, std::string start, std::string end, bool keep_file)
//    {
//        std::string url = build_url(ticker, start, end);
//        datatable::DataTable dt;
//        std::time_t now = std::time(0); // now
//        std::string output_file_name = ticker + "_" + std::to_string(now) + ".csv";
//        if(!keep_file)
//            output_file_name = "tmp_" + output_file_name;
//
//        download_file(url, output_file_name);
//        dt = datatable::DataTable(output_file_name, this->_col_name, true);
//
//        if(!keep_file)
//            std::remove(output_file_name.c_str());
//        return dt;
//    }

    /*
     * Downloads the historical stock data and returns the name of the file
     * created by the download.
     */
    std::string YahooFinanceAPI::download_ticker_data(std::string ticker, std::string start, std::string end)
    {
        std::string url = build_url(ticker, start, end);
        std::time_t now = std::time(0);
        std::string output_file_name = ticker + "_" + std::to_string(now) + ".csv";

        download_file(url, output_file_name);

        return output_file_name;
    }
}