As a developer, I love working with the terminal. The plain, simple, and in my opinion the best way to interact with the computer (also it makes you look geeky). I spent most of my time in the terminal. By now you must have guessed I am a huge fan of the terminal and terminal-based applications. Recently I developed an interest in stock markets and started tracking the stock markets. Since I love working with the terminal I decided to build a terminal oriented application that can help me to track the stock market. Inspired by I build which can provide the stock's current prices, historical prices, and global market summary. wttr.in terminal-stocks How to use terminal-stocks is available and can be used without installation. terminal-stocks 1. Get the current price of the stock. curl https://terminal-stocks.herokuapp.com/ITC.NS You need to provide the ticker of the stock and terminal-stocks will give you the price information of the stock. uses yahoo finance’s ticker to fetch stock information. terminal-stocks 2. Get the historical prices of a stock. curl https://terminal-stocks.herokuapp.com/historical/ITC.NS This will give the 10 entries. To fetch more you can get it by providing page parameters like below. curl https://terminal-stocks.herokuapp.com/historical/ITC.NS?page=2 3. Get the global market summary right in your terminal. curl https://terminal-stocks.herokuapp.com/market-summary More and more features will be added going forward. How to use terminal-stocks as CLI If you want to use terminal-stocks as a cli tool, you are lucky, terminal-stocks comes with cli as well. You can install terminal-stocks in windows/ubuntu/mac and use it. 1. Install terminal-stocks from npm npm install terminal-stocks -g 2. Get the price information of stock terminal-stocks -t ITC.NS 3. Get the historical price information of stock terminal-stocks -t ITC.NS --historical 4. Get the market summary terminal-stocks --market 5. Export the data as json or csv terminal-stocks --ticker ITC.NS --json for csv terminal-stocks --ticker ITC.NS --csv Roadmap terminal-stocks is still in development and need a lot of improvements and feature development. Add stock price chart right in the terminal.Add live price for stocks.Add support to maintain portfolio and track p&l right in terminal. If you want to contribute and make terminal-stocks better, contributions are welcome via pull request on Github Important Links: Github: https://github.com/shweshi/terminal-stocks NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/terminal-stocks Thanks for reading. If you have some feedback, please reach out to me on or . Twitter Github Happy Coding!!! Also published at https://blog.shashi.dev/2021/01/track-stock-market-information-right-in.html
