assets/style.css

@@ -645,7 +645,7 @@ a {
   flex-grow: 1;
 }
 
-#tab-1, #tab-2{
+#tab-1, #tab-2, #tab-3{
   background-color: #1E1E1E;
   color: #fff;
   border-left: none;
@@ -656,3 +656,9 @@ a {
 .tab--selected{
   background-color: #111111 !important;
 }
+
+#company-desritpion{
+  padding: 3rem 1rem;
+  margin: 0;
+  background-color: #111111;
+}

finance.py

@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ import pandas as pd
 import datetime
 import time
 from pandas_datareader import data
+import requests
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 
 # Load data
 stock_list = ['MMM', 'ABT', 'ABBV', 'ABMD', 'ACN', 'ATVI', 'ADBE', 'AMD', 'AAP', 'AES', 'AFL', 'A', 'APD', 'AKAM',
@@ -155,6 +157,9 @@ app.layout = html.Div(
                                           dcc.Graph(id='price-dividends', figure=mean_prices_and_dividends_figure,
                                                     config={'displayModeBar': False}, animate=True),
                                       ]),
+                                      dcc.Tab(id='tab-3', label='Copmany description', value='tab-3', children=[
+                                          html.Div(id="company-desritpion"),
+                                      ]),
                                   ]),
                                   dash_table.DataTable(
                                       id='stock_price_table',
@@ -170,6 +175,25 @@ app.layout = html.Div(
 )
 
 
+
+# Callback for scraping company description
+@app.callback(Output('company-desritpion', 'children'), [Input('table_selector', 'value')])
+def update_graph(selected_dropdown_value):
+    url = 'https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/{company}/profile?p={company}'.format(company=selected_dropdown_value)
+    page = requests.get(url)
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(page.content, 'html.parser')
+    comp_name = soup.find(id="Main").h3.text
+    description = soup.find_all('section', class_='quote-sub-section')[0].p.text
+    
+    return dcc.Markdown('''
+
+    # [{comp_name}]({url})
+
+    {description}
+        '''.format(comp_name=comp_name,description=description,url=url))  
+
+   
+
 # Callback for downloading file
 @app.callback(
     Output("download-data", "data"),