{"categories":[{"label":"WWW/HTTP","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/internet-www-http/7"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"Fetches CNN's Fear & Greed Index from their website, parses the current value, and returns it as a named tuple with the index value, category description, and last update timestamp.","skillfed_tags":["web-scraping","financial-data","sentiment-index"],"use_cases":["Fetch the current Fear & Greed Index value in a financial dashboard or monitoring application.","Log historical sentiment readings at intervals for trend analysis or backtesting trading strategies.","Alert traders or analysts when the index crosses into extreme fear or greed territory.","Combine with other market data sources to build a multi-factor sentiment analysis tool."],"what_it_does":"fear-and-greed is a lightweight Python wrapper that scrapes CNN's Fear & Greed Index from their website and returns the current market sentiment metric as a structured named tuple. It wraps the web-scraping logic around requests and requests-cache, caching results locally for 1 minute to avoid repeated fetches.\n\nThe package is designed for developers who want programmatic access to CNN's Fear & Greed Index without building their own scraper. It returns three pieces of data: the numeric index value, a human-readable category label (ranging from \"Extreme Fear\" to \"Extreme Greed\"), and the UTC timestamp of the last update on CNN's site. However, the package has not been maintained since May 2022, so its scraper may fail if CNN's website structure has changed.","worth_installing":"Yes, if you need quick programmatic access to CNN's Fear & Greed Index and are willing to accept the risk that the scraper may break due to site changes. The low install friction and permissive license make it a low-cost experiment. No, if you require active maintenance or a guaranteed working solution\u2014the package is abandoned and has not been updated since May 2022. Test it first to confirm the scraper still works with the current CNN website."},"id":"fear-and-greed","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/fear-and-greed","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/fear-and-greed.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/fear-and-greed/"},"maintenance":{"status":"abandoned"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2022-05-20","license_spdx":null,"license_treatment":"permissive","name":"fear-and-greed","python_support":"supports_current","summary":"Python wrapper for CNN Fear & Greed Index."},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":90405,"position":13587,"tier":"top_15000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"0.4"}