A simple command line Go tool for monitoring stock quotes and sending desktop alerts when price drops or rises to certain amount
Tired keeping track of the stock quotes ? Let simple-quote-monitor come rescue. It will periodically check the quote every 30 to 40 seconds(randomly) and send desktop alerts when price drops or rises to certain amount.
It scrapes google finance website and finds the price on it. Unfortunately, I didn't find great finance API and google also deprecated theirs so I am doing scraping instead. However, when you use this tool, please keep in mind that the data from google finance are NOT real-time in all cases. Some stocks have real-time while many others have around 15 mins delay. When you set the range of price you are watching, please consider this 15 mins delay. This might be addressed in the future if I find providers who have real-time stock quotes.
Currently, the notification only works on OSX Mountain Lion's or after with the notification center and you have to brew install terminal-notifier for desktop alerts. Simply run
$ brew install terminal-notifier
and you are done. This will be improved in the future as I might embed the terminal-notifier in the source code so you do not have to install terminal-notifier by yourself. I will also add supports to Windows and Linux
Install this tool with
go get github.com/ssdong/simple-quote-monitor
The command line options are
Usage: simple-quote-monitor [options]
-se <stock exchange> The code of stock exchange market
-ss <stock symbol> The unique series of letters of a security
-min <number> The minimum price watching for
-max <number> The maximum price watching for
E.g. run
simple-quote-monitor -se=cve -ss=icc -min=0.5 -max=1
will monitor stock ICC in the stock exchange market CVE with a minimum price of $0.5 and maximum of $1. It will send you notifications when the price falls outside of this range(including these two numbers).
If you want the desktop alert to stay until you clicks it you would have to change your notification preferences for terminal-notifier in notification centre as this one. Otherwise, the notification will go away in 5 seconds and you might miss it. Unfortunately this is something you have to do it manually since OSX forces the notification to disappear within a certain amount of time.
