If so, which one should I consider to use?

https://github.com/achannarasappa/ticker

With ticker you can track stocks, crypto, and derivatives prices and positions in real time without leaving your terminal

The latest v5 release introduces functional and performance enhancements with a rewrite of many of the core components. Some of the enhancements include:

• Streaming price updates for supported exchanges (e.g. Coinbase)

• Price change animation

• Debug mode with error logging

• Derivatives support

• Design improvements (data source extensibility, decoupling currency conversion, streaming and polling data source support)

These enhancements build on the existing features:

• Live price tracking for stocks, crypto, and derivatives

• Real time profit and loss tracking for positions and portfolios

• Support for multiple portfolios

• Support for tracking multiple cost basis lots

• Customizable display options (color scheme, sorting, additional data)

• Currency conversion for prices, positions, and portfolio

• Output positions and watchlist as CSV, JSON, and pipe into other commands

Wrote a shell function for this:

q () {
        curl -sL "https://www.google.com/finance/quote/$1" | pandoc -f html -t plain | grep -A9 "${1%:*}" | awk 'NR==1 || NR==9' ORS=' '
}

Usage:

$ q "SPY:NYSEARCA"
SPY • NYSEARCA $451.64

I wanted to do some woodworking & garden work and listen to music, so I wrote a PHP script to yell the current stock price at me. As soon as I post this some asshole will probably point out that there this already exists somewhere and I missed it in my preliminary google search. To that guy I say, "thanks, dick."

By default, it speak a higher stock price in a high pitch, and lower in lower.

Create a file called speakstock.php and run it like

$chmod +x speakstock.php
$./speakstock.php SPY

If you don't have it already, you'll need the spd-say ubuntu command and the number formatting packages

$sudo apt-get install gnustep-gui-runtime php-intl

Here's the script

#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
if($argc === 1) die ("No arguments, please provide stock symbol.\n");
$stock = $argv[1]; 

$f = new NumberFormatter("en", NumberFormatter::SPELLOUT);
$oldPrice = 0.0;
while(true){
	$data = json_decode(file_get_contents("https://financialmodelingprep.com/api/v3/stock/real-time-price/$stock"),true);
	$price = floatval($data["price"]) + 0.0;

	if( $price !== $oldPrice ){
		$pitch = ($price > $oldPrice ? 30 : -30);
		$oldPrice = $price;
		$number = $f->format($price);
		echo $price . PHP_EOL;
		`spd-say -p $pitch "$number" `; //1>/dev/null
	} else {
		echo ".";
		//	var_dump($data );
	}
	sleep(1);
}

E: added a package you need

I'm trying to write a script to pull stock quotes using curl

Can this be done easily using curl -L https://someURL.com to pull the data?

Do stock quotes require a login or browser only? Or could I pull it down using JSON?

Thanks in advance.

Many of you may recognize this project from a post I made on this subreddit a few weeks ago - but the then project (a weekend throw-together script) has evolved into a much more serious program.

cliStocksTracker includes many features it didn't before - including custom color selection, command line argument configuration, a more detailed view of your portfolio, and more! Best of all - it's been refactored (twice already!) to make it as friendly for new (and relatively unexperienced) developers to start contributing.

Check out this screenshot, featuring two tickers on the same axis - as well as that upgraded table view!

Interested in checking it out (or even better, contributing)? Check out the project on Github:https://github.com/ConradSelig/cliStocksTracker

Hope you enjoy! ~C

If you live in the terminal and want to keep an eye on the markets without leaving it — I built something you might like.

stocksTUI is a terminal-based stock tracker built with Textual. It gives you real-time(ish) prices, ticker-specific news, historical data, and ASCII charts — all navigable with Vim-style keys, no mouse required.

Features:

• 🧮 Custom watchlists (tech, crypto, indices, etc.)

• 📉 Historical data with inline charts (via plotext)

• 📰 Ticker-specific news headlines

• ⚙️ Configurable UI and themes (Solarized, Dracula, Nord, etc.)

• ⌨️ Full keybinding support — you never need to leave the keyboard

Works on:

• Linux

• macOS

• Windows (via WSL2)

I built it to have a market dashboard running alongside htop and btop without ever launching a browser.

🔗 GitHub: https://github.com/andriy-git/stocksTUI

Open to feedback, feature ideas, or pull requests!