Stock ticker?

[hydrolisk1792]

I have a new idea for Smartie. Is there/can there be a plugin made to display stock market stats and whatnot? It doesn't need to be anything fancy just basically the following (For Example)

NYSE: WFC
$24.27 +0.32 (1.34%)

I'd like to be able to customize it though like have multiple stocks to scroll just like the ticker in New York City's Times Square. I believe this would be greatly useful for people investing in the stock market or even day traders...

Cheers

[limbo]

Where can you retrieve these info?
Is this a free service?

[hydrolisk1792]

Where can you retrieve these info?
Is this a free service?

I believe that everyone uses yahoo finance or something like that.

[dperrow]

There appears to be lots of examples of scraping data from yahoo finance in Python. I could only find one that wasn't in Python at https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=ho ... &FORM=VIRE

It's in C++.

I'm not fluent in Python and unfortunately I'm in the middle of doing a house extension so don't have a lot of time at the moment but I'll take a look further if I get a chance.

[hydrolisk1792]

There appears to be lots of examples of scraping data from yahoo finance in Python. I could only find one that wasn't in Python at https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=ho ... &FORM=VIRE

It's in C++.

I'm not fluent in Python and unfortunately I'm in the middle of doing a house extension so don't have a lot of time at the moment but I'll take a look further if I get a chance.

Thank you and good luck with the house

[trihy]

Hi guys, hope you are all fine.

Some popular webs to retrieve stock data could be

https://www.webull.com/

and

https://www.investing.com/

[hydrolisk1792]

Hi guys, hope you are all fine.

Some popular webs to retrieve stock data could be

https://www.webull.com/

and

https://www.investing.com/

Thank you for the reply. Much appreciated

[trihy]

Too bad didnt get any email alerting the project is back.

Hope you are still around. Never undertood why so much arduino projects with lcd screens and this one which is Windows based has few interest. Maybe because it´s a little difficult to find the usb backpack for this LCD´s, but even saw people putting the entire arduino inside the PC to drive the LCD, a lot more complicated.

Wonder if there are other ways, usb backpack can be a little expensive too.

Any way to connect them through PC serial port or other option? Guess some motherboards still has serial port pins.

[hydrolisk1792]

Too bad didnt get any email alerting the project is back.

Hope you are still around. Never undertood why so much arduino projects with lcd screens and this one which is Windows based has few interest. Maybe because it´s a little difficult to find the usb backpack for this LCD´s, but even saw people putting the entire arduino inside the PC to drive the LCD, a lot more complicated.

Wonder if there are other ways, usb backpack can be a little expensive too.

Any way to connect them through PC serial port or other option? Guess some motherboards still has serial port pins.

There are LCD screens out there that have RS232. I have found some via crystalfontz.com. There is already a built in driver inside smartie to drive them as well. I have done several arduino back pack type solutions in the past to act as a go between and just use either the matrix.dll protocol or the crystal.dll protocol. Options are out there. There is also a place here on the forums for such hardware discussions.

[limbo]

In hardware discussion (https://lcdsmartie.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=11) you can find few low cost hardware projects.

A couple that I use and I can confirm that are working just fine:
FTDI https://lcdsmartie.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1540
ESP8266 https://lcdsmartie.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3618