stonks-alert
Stock alerts SMS app
Features
- simple, ~ 200 LoC program
- stock prices feed from alphavantage
- twilio SMS alerts
- redis dev cache
Price feed details
You don't need a Pro account if you're ok with some delay (prices being checked once every ~10m)
Redis DB
this application requires a redis instance running locally
Twilio accounts alerts setup
- Twilio account
- A number registered with SMS capabilities
- API keys configured
Config
Edit config/stonks.rb and replace the configuration with the ticker symbols you want to watch.
The keys of the config hash are the ticker symbols. The values contain the alerts thresholds, low and high. Whenever the price crosses these values (on one direction or on the other) an SMS alert will be triggered.
Env vars / secret files
This app can be configured with environment variables and secret files, note env vars take precedence.
SMS_RECIPIENTS / ~/.stonks_sms_recipients
pipe separated list of numbers receiving the sms, if you want just one number just use the number, no spaces with international prefix e.g. +4412345678
ALPHA_VANTAGE_KEY / ~/.alphavantage-stonks-key
alphavantage api key
TWILIO_NUMBER / ~/.twilio_number
twilio number you registered (see prereqs.)
TWILIO_KEYS / ~/.twilio_keys
twilio credentials, pipe separated - TWILIO_SID|TWILIO_TOKEN - e.g. AC12762bf81fca007e3a6399bce2886932|fb5456bfc88774839f2d4d74bdf48817
hope this helps :)
have fun!
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