import pandas_datareader.data as web
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib import style
import datetime as dt

style.use('ggplot')

# The goal here was to get practice getting data from a website and printing a graph with that data

# Arbitrary date range, could easily be modified to accept user input
start = dt.datetime(2006, 1, 1)
end = dt.datetime(2016, 12, 31)

# Ask User to specify which stock ticker to check
stock_to_check = input("Enter a ticker symbol: ")

# Request data from website (I have been using get.requests() for webscraping but this seems to be easier for my purposes
df = web.DataReader(stock_to_check, 'yahoo', start, end)

# Print off just the first and last 3 lines
print(df.head(3))
print(df.tail(3))

plt.plot(df['Adj Close'])
plt.ylabel('price')

plt.show()