Forex Factory Calendar Scraper

A script to scrape the Forex Factory calendar for economic events and store the data in CSV files.

Description

This script scrapes the Forex Factory calendar for economic events, including the date, time, currency, event, impact level, actual value, forecast, and previous value. The data is saved in CSV files for each year.

Dependencies

• Python 3.x
• beautifulsoup4
• pandas
• cloudscraper

You can install the required packages using pip:

pip install beautifulsoup4 pandas cloudscraper

Sample Output

The script saves the scraped data in CSV files named forex_factory_calendar_.csv in the datasets directory. Each file contains the following columns:

Date	Time	Currency	Event	Impact	Actual	Forecast	Previous	Combined DateTime
2012-01-01	00:00	USD	Nonfarm Payrolls	High	120K	100K	90K	2012-01-01 00:00:00
2012-01-08	09:00	EUR	ECB Interest Rate	Medium	1.25%	1.50%	1.75%	2012-01-08 09:00:00
2012-01-15	14:30	GBP	Inflation Report	High		1.75%	1.85%	2012-01-15 14:30:00