From c42f5a698037581680b19d004cd405c2e6fa99d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bradlee Speice <bradlee.speice@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 21:44:03 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Remove Histdata; too many nonces, not worth it

---
 metrik/tasks/histdata.py    | 98 -------------------------------------
 test/tasks/test_histdata.py | 32 ------------
 2 files changed, 130 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 metrik/tasks/histdata.py
 delete mode 100644 test/tasks/test_histdata.py

diff --git a/metrik/tasks/histdata.py b/metrik/tasks/histdata.py
deleted file mode 100644
index e0ef989..0000000
--- a/metrik/tasks/histdata.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,98 +0,0 @@
-from zipfile import ZipFile
-from io import BytesIO
-import requests
-import pandas as pd
-from datetime import datetime
-
-from metrik.tasks.base import MongoCreateTask
-from metrik.utils import masked_get
-from metrik.conf import USER_AGENT
-
-
-class HistDataWrapper(MongoCreateTask):
-    @staticmethod
-    def fetch_zip(currency, year, month, side):
-        """
-
-        :param currency: Currency pair specified as EURUSD
-        :type currency: str
-        :param year: Year for retrieval as an integer
-        :param month: Month for retrieval as an integer
-        :param side: BID or ASK for which side of the trade you want
-        :return: zip file content with CSV of tick data
-        """
-        # HistData has some interesting tricks they go through to make it
-        # hard to bulk download data. Specifically: you post to one page with
-        # your `Referer` as a different page to get the data, plus some extra
-        # POST body things in order to get the data to come.
-        request_url = 'http://www.histdata.com/get.php'
-        month_leading = '{:02d}'.format(month)
-
-        # No idea what this parameter does, because I'm not convinced it's a nonce:
-        if side == 'BID':
-            tk = '6b95868ebd96e92f3f28196354e1901f'
-        else:
-            tk = 'fa921f9b65d175d05c5976b5f78e5333'
-
-        zip_fname = 'HISTDATA_COM_NT_{pair}_T_{side}_{year}{month_leading}.zip'.format(
-            year=year,
-            month_leading=month_leading,
-            side=side,
-            pair=currency
-        )
-
-        zip_url = 'http://www.histdata.com/' \
-                  'download-free-forex-historical-data/?/ninjatrader/' \
-                  'tick-{side}-quotes/{pair}/{year}/{month_nonleading}/' \
-                  '{zip_fname}' \
-            .format(
-                year=year,
-                side=side.lower(),
-                month_nonleading=str(month),
-                pair=currency.lower(),
-                zip_fname=zip_fname
-            )
-
-        request_content = requests.post(request_url, headers={
-            'Host': 'www.histdata.com',
-            'Referer': zip_url,
-            'User-Agent': USER_AGENT,
-            'Cookie': '__cfduid=d42d8f540c786afd0568ab63eb20c50eb1471099760; complianceCookie=off',
-        }, data={
-            'tk': tk,
-            'date': year,
-            'datemonth': '{year}{month_leading}'.format(
-                year=year, month_leading=month_leading),
-            'platform': 'NT',
-            'timeframe': 'T_{}'.format(side),
-            'fxpair': currency
-        }).content
-
-        return BytesIO(request_content)
-
-    @staticmethod
-    def fetch_csv(zip_content, currency, year, month, side):
-        csv_fname = 'DAT_NT_{pair}_T_{side}_{year}{month_leading}.csv'.format(
-            pair=currency,
-            side=side,
-            year=year,
-            month_leading='{:02d}'.format(month)
-        )
-        z = ZipFile(zip_content)
-        bytes = z.read(csv_fname)
-        return BytesIO(bytes)
-
-    @staticmethod
-    def parse_csv(csv_content):
-        def parse_timestamp(string):
-            return datetime.strptime(string, '%Y%m%d %H%M%S')
-
-        table = pd.read_csv(
-            filepath_or_buffer=csv_content,
-            names=['Timestamp', 'Price', 'Unknown'],
-            parse_dates=['Timestamp'],
-            date_parser=parse_timestamp,
-            sep=';'
-        ).drop('Unknown', axis=1)
-
-        return table.to_dict()
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diff --git a/test/tasks/test_histdata.py b/test/tasks/test_histdata.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 8f4218e..0000000
--- a/test/tasks/test_histdata.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-from unittest import TestCase
-from io import BytesIO
-import pandas as pd
-
-from metrik.tasks.histdata import HistDataWrapper
-
-
-class HistDataWrapperTest(TestCase):
-
-    def test_eur_usd_july2016_bid(self):
-        zip_content = HistDataWrapper.fetch_zip('EURUSD', 2016, 7, 'BID')
-        assert len(zip_content.getvalue()) > 0
-        csv_content = HistDataWrapper.fetch_csv(zip_content, 'EURUSD', 2016, 7, 'BID')
-        assert len(csv_content.getvalue()) > 0
-        content_dict = HistDataWrapper.parse_csv(csv_content)
-        assert len(content_dict) > 0
-
-    def test_usd_cad_july2016_bid(self):
-        zip_content = HistDataWrapper.fetch_zip('USDCAD', 2016, 7, 'BID')
-        assert len(zip_content.getvalue()) > 0
-        csv_content = HistDataWrapper.fetch_csv(zip_content, 'USDCAD', 2016, 7, 'BID')
-        assert len(csv_content.getvalue()) > 0
-        content_dict = HistDataWrapper.parse_csv(csv_content)
-        assert len(content_dict) > 0
-
-    def test_eur_usd_july2016_ask(self):
-        zip_content = HistDataWrapper.fetch_zip('EURUSD', 2016, 7, 'ASK')
-        assert len(zip_content.getvalue()) > 0
-        csv_content = HistDataWrapper.fetch_csv(zip_content, 'EURUSD', 2016, 7, 'ASK')
-        assert len(csv_content.getvalue()) > 0
-        content_dict = HistDataWrapper.parse_csv(csv_content)
-        assert len(content_dict) > 0
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