Good stock ticker program?

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Hi all!
Brand new to this, and I started with the headline project. I got it working and am now hoping to try a stock ticker project. Anyone have any good stock ticker projects that have been recently updated and are based on the rpi-rgb-lex-matrix?

Thank you all so much!

2

you’ll probably find some with google searches, something in python and then pipe the output to the library?

3

YOu can use this below.

import json
from yahooquery import Ticker

aapl = Ticker('GME')

stock1 = json.dumps(aapl.price)
stock = json.loads(stock1)
#print(stock)


print( stock["GME"]["regularMarketPrice"])

OR

from samplebase import SampleBase
from rgbmatrix import graphics
import time
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs


class RunText(SampleBase):

    def run(self):
      while True:
        res = requests.get('https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/gme')
        soup = bs(res.content, 'lxml')
        price = soup.select_one('.intraday__price .value').text

        res1 = requests.get('https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/etsy')
        soup1 = bs(res1.content, 'lxml')
        price1 = soup1.select_one('.intraday__price .value').text

        res2 = requests.get('https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/aapl')
        soup2 = bs(res2.content, 'lxml')
        price2 = soup2.select_one('.intraday__price .value').text

        offscreen_canvas = self.matrix.CreateFrameCanvas()
        font = graphics.Font()
        font.LoadFont("../../../fonts/6x10.bdf")
        textColor = graphics.Color(255, 255, 0)
        stock2 = graphics.Color(139, 0, 0)
        stock3 = graphics.Color(64, 0, 255)
        pos = offscreen_canvas.width
        my_text =  " GME: " + price
        my_text1 = "ETSY: " + price1
        my_text2 = "AAPL: " + price2

        while True:
            offscreen_canvas.Clear()
            len = graphics.DrawText(offscreen_canvas, font, pos, 10, textColor, my_text)
            len2 = graphics.DrawText(offscreen_canvas, font, pos, 18, stock2, my_text1)
            len3 = graphics.DrawText(offscreen_canvas, font, pos, 26, stock3, my_text2)
            pos -= 1
            if (pos + len3 < 0):
                pos = offscreen_canvas.width
                break
            time.sleep(0.08)
            offscreen_canvas = self.matrix.SwapOnVSync(offscreen_canvas)

#Main function
if __name__ == "__main__":
    run_text = RunText()
    time.sleep(0.08)
    if (not run_text.process()):
        run_text.print_help()
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I am having trouble getting that second script to work. I keep returning an error that says "bs4.FeatureNotFound: Couldn’t find a tree builder with the features you requested: lxml. Do you need to install a parser library?

I have installed everything I need and have double checked that it is installed.

Any suggestions?

5

Could not get the 1st one with YahooQuote working.
Eventually got the 2nd one working with BeautifulSoup4.
Have to run it from the bindings/python/samples directory or the import SampleBase (samplebase.py) won’t work.
apt-get install python3-dev
apt-get install pip3
apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev
anything else it needs…

I named it ticker.py

then (for my 32 by 64 column matrix at 50% brightness)
sudo python3 ./ticker.py --led-no-hardware-pulse LED_NO_HARDWARE_PULSE --led-cols 64 -b 50