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import requests
import json
import datetime

print("hello")

"""
First pull data from yahoo api
"""
params = { #'period1' : '1753487940', 
           #'period2' : '1753725600', 
           'interval' : '1d', 
           'range' : '1y',
           'events' : 'div|split|earn', 
           'includePrePost' : 'false' }
headers = {'User-agent' : 'fin-backtesting-proj'}
r = requests.get("https://query2.finance.yahoo.com/v8/finance/chart/AAPL", headers=headers, params=params)

print(r.url)
print("status_code:\t", r.status_code)


# decode the JSON response data into a Python object
r.raise_for_status() # raises if error before parsing
data_obj = r.json()

timestamps = data_obj['chart']['result'][0]['timestamp']
close_prices = data_obj['chart']['result'][0]['indicators']['quote'][0]['close']
print('close_price len: ', len(close_prices), 'timestamps len: ', len(timestamps))

# save timestamps and close prices into separate files
timestamps_encoded = json.dumps(timestamps)
close_prices_encoded = json.dumps(close_prices)

timestamps_file = open('timestamps.json', 'w')
timestamps_file.truncate(0) # erase current content in file
timestamps_file.write(timestamps_encoded)
timestamps_file.close()

close_prices_file = open('close_prices.json', 'w')
close_prices_file.truncate(0)
close_prices_file.write(close_prices_encoded)
close_prices_file.close()