slashStock

Get stock quotes in Twitter. (@slashStock GOOG)

Usage

The bot understand commands in this format:

@slashStock SYMBOL TIME_SPAN

• SYMBOL - Any stock symbol. Can contain $ symbol. Can specify the exchange.
• TIME_SPAN (optional) - Time span to pull the chart for.
  • Defaults to 1d if not specifed
  • Possible values: one of 1d, 5d, 3m, 6m, 1y, 2y, 5y, my (max)

Example

• Amazon - @slashStock AMZN
• Netflix - Netflix is now in 190 countries. Damn! @slashStock $NFLX
• S&P 500 - @slashStock SPY 5y
• Greece ETF - @slashStock GREK 2y

Where is this bot running?

Currently I'm running this bot on a 1GB DigitalOcean instance (Use that link to get a free VPS for 2 months). The bot is not resource-intensive and uses a couple dozen MBs of RAM.

Running

Requirements

• Python 2+
• pip

Instructions

Create a file called config.py that looks like config_example.py. Fill in the necessary values.

For Twitter config:

1. Register your app
2. Get your app's key and secret.
3. Create token and get the token and secret by running oauth.py

Then, to run the bot:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ python bot.py

License

Apache 2.0