stocks-extension

A extension to display stock quotes in GNOME Shell Panel

⚠️ Status

This project is unmaintained.

I do not plan to continue active development. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this project.

Forks for independent continuation are welcome.

Thank you for your attention to this matter

stocks-extension integrates stock quotes to your GNOME Shell Panel =)

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Installation

Generic (Local installation)

Release Package

Download a release and put the content into ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected] (you need to create a directory).

Make install

Clone the repo and run make install

ArchLinux User Repo (thx @flortsch)

Install the package (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnome-shell-extension-stocks-extension/) e.g. by using yay:

yay -S gnome-shell-extension-stocks-extension

Data Provider

Data is cached for 10 seconds and will reload automatically, click refresh to force a fresh pull immediately. Currently, two provider are supported:

• Yahoo Finance
• eastmony

Add Stocks

To add stocks you need the provider related symbol / identifier. You should be able to get them from yahoo finance or eastmony.com pages.

1. Open Settings
2. Add or Select a Portfolio
3. Click on the + icon on the bottom of the first tab
4. Enter Symbol (yahoo e.g. AHLA.DE, eastmoney e.g. 1.000001) and give it a name

debug

dbus-run-session -- gnome-shell --nested --wayland