Look up and plot current stock prices from your terminal.

This is a Python script for monitoring the current stock prices using the Yahoo Finance API to retrieve the latest stock prices and display them in the terminal.

1. Simply run

$ pip install StockStack

2. Add <YOUR_ALIAS> as an alias to your .bashrc, .zshrc, etc.

$ echo 'alias <YOUR_ALIAS>="python3 ~/stockstack/caller.py"'>>~/.bashrc

OPTIONAL: If you want to have StockStack launch whenever you open a new terminal add:

$ echo '<YOUR_ALIAS>'>>~/.bashrc

3. Update your .bashrc, .zshrc, etc.

$ source ~/.bashrc

Retrieve current stock prices.

$ <YOUR_ALIAS>  [] [-s STOCK_SYMBOL [STOCK_SYMBOL ...]]
                [-d STOCK_SYMBOL [STOCK_SYMBOL ...]]
                [-u STOCK_SYMBOL [STOCK_SYMBOL ...]] 
                [-p] [--details] [-v] [-h]

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -s STOCK_SYMBOL [STOCK_SYMBOL ...], --stocks STOCK_SYMBOL [STOCK_SYMBOL ...]
                        List of stocks to monitor.
  -d STOCK_SYMBOL [STOCK_SYMBOL ...], --default_stocks STOCK_SYMBOL [STOCK_SYMBOL ...]
                        Set the default stocks to monitor.
  -u STOCK_SYMBOL [STOCK_SYMBOL ...], --update_default_stocks STOCK_SYMBOL [STOCK_SYMBOL ...]
                        Update the default stocks.
  -p [PLOT], --plot [PLOT]
                        Plot the current or default stocks.
  --details [DETAILS]   Display additional details about a stock.
  -v, --version         show program's version number and exit

To retrieve the current stock prices for a list of stocks, run the script with the following command:

python caller.py -s AAPL MSFT TSLA

This will display the current prices for Apple, Microsoft and Tesla stocks.

To set the default stocks to monitor, use the -d or --default_stocks option:

python caller.py -d AAPL MSFT

This will set the default stocks to Apple and Microsoft.

To update the default stocks, use the -u or --update_default_stocks option:

python caller.py -u AAPL GOOG

This will add Apple and Google stocks to the default list (if not already added).

To view the current price of your default list run the script without any options:

python caller.py

To view details of your default list or other stocks use the --details option:

python caller.py --details

To plot the graph of your default list or other stocks use the -p or --plot option:

python caller.py -p

Contributions are welcome! If you find a bug or have an idea for a new feature, please open an issue or submit a pull request.

This project is licensed under the GPL-3.0 license. See the LICENSE file for details.

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