tstock - Generate stock charts in the terminal! 🚀🚀🚀

📈 tstock is a tool to easily generate stock charts from the command line.

Just type tstock aapl to get a 3 month candlestick chart of $AAPL in your terminal!

Features

Stocks for most global exchanges
Support for major cryptocurrencies
Forex markets and currency exchange rates
Different time intervals, including intraday trading
"Wisdom"?!

Dependencies

Python 3.6 or greater
Docker, if using the Docker version

Installation

AUR

tstock is available on the AUR. If you are on an Archlinux system, you can just install it using your AUR helper. Example using yay:

yay -S tstock

PyPI

tstock is also available as a Python package. You can install it using pip:

pip install tstock

Docker

Build Docker: docker build -t tstock .
Run: docker run -e ALPHAVANTAGE_API_KEY=<yourkey> -it tstock:latest tstock aapl

Getting started

AlphaVantage API setup

After installing tstock, you will need a AlphaVantage API key to pull the market data.

Make a free AlphaVantage API account at https://www.alphavantage.co/support/#api-key
After creating the account, you will see your free API key
Run export ALPHAVANTAGE_API_KEY=<your access key>. You can make this permanent by adding this line to your .bashrc

Usage

tstock --help
usage: tstock [-h] [-t INTERVAL] [-b COUNT] [-w] [-s] [--chart]
                   [-c CURRENCY] [-y LINES] [-a CLASS] [--padx COLUMNS]
                   [--pady LINES] [-v] [--version]
                   [TICKER]

tstock - generate stock charts in the terminal.

positional arguments:
  TICKER          Which ticker's data to pull.

options:
  -h, --help      show this help message and exit
  -t INTERVAL     Time interval of each candlestick. Valid values are '1min', '5min', '15min', '30min', '60min', 'day', 'week', or 'month'. Defaults to 'day'.
  -b COUNT        Number of time intervals back to go back. The number of candlesticks generated. Defaults to 70.
  -w              Enables extra words of 'wisdom'.
  -s              Short output, prints the last price only.
  --chart         Print the chart only. Overrides -w.
  -c CURRENCY     Set the currency. Only works with '-a crypto'. Defaults to 'USD'.
  -y LINES        Height of the chart. Defaults to 40.
  -a CLASS        The asset class of TICKER. Valid values are 'stock', 'crypto', and 'forex'. Autodetects depending on input ticker.
  --padx COLUMNS  Horizontal padding of the chart. Defaults to 5.
  --pady LINES    Vertical padding of the chart. Defaults to 4.
  -v              Toggle verbosity.
  --version       Print tstock version.

Examples:
    tstock aapl # chart of $AAPL
    tstock aapl -t 1min # the past 70 1-minute-intervals of $AAPL
    tstock aapl -t 60min -b 24 # the past 24 60-minute-intervals (aka past day) of $AAPL
    tstock aapl -t 60min -b 24 -y 20 # same as above, but only 20 lines high
    tstock btc # chart of the cryptocurrency $BTC
    tstock btc -w # same as above, with rocket ships 🚀🚀🚀
    tstock btc -c GBP # same as above, but in currency GBP
    tstock usd/eur # chart of the price of USD in euros

Run tstock TICKER to get the 70 day chart of $TICKER. Use -b COUNT to specify the number of days back you want to pull. -t INTERVAL will specify the time interval of each candlestick. Use -y LINES to specify the length of the chart's y axis.

To get cryptocurrencies, use the -a crypto option. For example, tstock -a crypto BTC would fetch a price chart of Bitcoin.

For more options, run tstock -h

You can get international markets by specifying a code after .. For example, to get SAIC Motor Corporation on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, run tstock 600104.SHH. Find more information on how to specify special tickers on AlphaVantage's docs: https://www.alphavantage.co/documentation

Notes

The free tier of the API is limited to 500 API calls per day, 5 calls per minute.
If you are using Windows, the ANSI escape codes will not display properly in the default cmd shell or PowerShell. Please use an emulator that supports ANSI escape codes such as Windows Terminal.

Donate

I develop tstock for free in my spare time. If you like it, and want to buy me a coffee, I'd really appreciate it.

Donate: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Gbox4

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