This is a proof of concept web scraping exercise that allows the user to input the type of yield curve they want to see(nominal or real), then also select the year and month for which they want. The application then reaches out to the US Treasury website and retrieves, via web scrape, the tabular data in the on screen grid.
The goal is to integrate other assets, a database connection and a front end for inputs that will ultimately drive the data acquisition.
- Set up Virtual environment
python -m venv .venv