Download historical stock data from BSE & NSE as sqlite database 📊 💹

bhavcopy allows you to download (and sync) historical stock price data from BSE ^[1] & NSE ^[2]. It makes use of the published bhavcopy records from those exchanges (published as csv) and allows you to download and merge them into a single, self-contained sqlite file.

> bhav --help
Usage of bhav:
    --filename string   database file to sync (default "bhavcopy.db")
    --from timestamp    date to start syncing from (default 01-Jan-0001)
    --save-patch        save changeset to a patch file
    --verbose           enable verbose logging

The first time you invoke bhavcopy on a database file it'd start to sync data from Jan-1994 (for NSE) & Jan-2007 (for BSE). This might cause your IP to be blacklisted temporarily by those exchanges (no one like a crawler 😉). To preven that use --until timestamp (in conjunction with --from) and only download data for a quarter or half-year at a time. You can repeat this a few times to fetch all past data.

The database file contains the following tables:

• equity

CREATE TABLE equity
(
    exchange       TEXT NOT NULL CHECK (exchange IN ('bse', 'nse')),
    trading_date   TEXT NOT NULL CHECK (trading_date IS DATE(trading_date)),
    ticker         TEXT NOT NULL,
    type           TEXT NOT NULL,

    -- International Security Identification Number
    -- we keep this as nullable because not all securities have it and neither do older bhav copies
    isin_code      TEXT,

    -- a share's value related data
    open           FLOAT,
    high           FLOAT,
    low            FLOAT,
    close          FLOAT,
    last           FLOAT,
    previous_close FLOAT,

    -- we set a composite primary key on (exchange, date, ticker) tuple
    -- this allows us to ensure only unique values are recorded in the table
    -- for a given ticker from an exchange on a given date
    PRIMARY KEY (exchange, trading_date, ticker, type)
) WITHOUT ROWID;      

The source code in this repository is provided under MIT License Copyright (c) 2020 Riyaz Ali

Refer to LICENSE for full text.