MMM-SingleStock

This is a module for the MagicMirror² to display a single stock price without any fancy animation.

Features

By default this module displays the symbol and the current price of the configured stock:

Default

You can configure the module to display the full name of the company instead of the stock symbol:

With full company name

If you wish, you can completely remove the prefix, and display only the price value:

Without prefix

You can even configure any custom prefix, for example a dollar sign:

With custom prefix

The second line of the module displays the change of the price which can be hidden if you prefer:

Without second line

You can also configure the module to display a percent change in the price:

Percent Change

Finally, this module also supports a smaller view as well as colorizing the percentage change and highlight the stock value:

Minimal

This module is capable to display only a single stock price. If you would like to see the price of more stocks on your mirror, add this module multiple times.

For updates, please check the CHANGELOG.

Using the module

To use this module follow these steps:

Clone this repository to the modules folder of your MagicMirror:

git clone https://github.com/balassy/MMM-SingleStock.git

Add the following configuration block to the modules array in the config/config.js file:

var config = {
  modules: [
    {
      module: 'MMM-SingleStock',
      position: 'top_right',
      config: {
        stockSymbol: 'GOOG',
        apiToken: 'YOUR_TOKEN',  // Unique, private API key obtained from https://iexcloud.io/console/tokens
        updateInterval: 3600000, // 1 hour in milliseconds
        showChange: true,        // false | true
        changeType: '',          // 'percent' | ''
        label: 'symbol',         // 'symbol' | 'companyName' | 'none' | any string
        colorized: false,        // false | true
        minimal: false           // false | true
      }
    }
  ]
}

Configuration options

Option	Description
`stockSymbol`	REQUIRED The symbol of the stock of what the value should be displayed in this module. Type: `string` Default value: `GOOG`
`apiToken`	REQUIRED Your unique, private API key for the IEX Cloud you can obtain from https://iexcloud.io/console/tokens. Type: `string` Default value: `""` (empty string)
`updateInterval`	Optional The frequency of when the module should query the current price of the stock. Type: `int` (milliseconds) Default value: `3600000` milliseconds (1 hour)
`showChange`	Optional Determines whether the price difference should be also displayed. Type: `boolean` Default value: `true` (yes, the price difference is displayed)
`changeType`	Optional Allows stock change to be shown as the raw value or as a percent. Type: `string` Default Value: `""` (empty string) Possible values: `percent`: Show the change as a percent rather than the raw value.
`label`	Optional Determines what prefix should be prepended to the price. Type: `string` Possible values: `symbol`: The acronym of the stock (e.g. `GOOG`) is displayed before the price. `companyName`: The full name of the company (e.g. `Alphabet Inc.`) is displayed before the price. `none`: Nothing is displayed before the price, only the price is shown. Any other string is displayed as is, e.g. set `$` to display a dollar sign before the price number. Default value: `symbol` (the acronym of the stock is displayed before the price)
`colorized`	Optional Determines whether the price difference should be displayed in red (negative) or green (positive) as well as highlight the current price. Type: `boolean` Default value: `false` (no color highlight)
`minimal`	Optional Determines whether the module should reduce the font size for a more compact display. Type: `boolean` Default value: `false` (regular font size)

How it works

This module periodically sends requests from the browser window of the MagicMirror Electron application to the IEX Cloud Service. The IEX Cloud API has multiple tiers including a free tier which is suitable for this module. However to access the API you need a unique, private API Token.

You can sign up to IEX Cloud by visiting this URL: https://iexcloud.io/cloud-login#/register/

Localization

Currently this module supports English (en) and Hungarian (hu) languages. The language can be specified in the global language setting in the config.js file.

Want to see more languages? Please contribute!

Contribution

Although for operation this module does not depend on any other module, if you would like to contribute to the codebase, please use the preconfigured linters to analyze the source code before sending a pull request. To run the linters follow these steps:

Install developer dependencies:

npm install

Run all linters:

npm run lint

Got feedback?

Your feedback is more than welcome, please send your suggestions, feature requests or bug reports as Github issues.

Acknowledments

Many thanks to Michael Teeuw for creating and maintaining the MagicMirror² project fully open source.

Thanks to alexyak for calling my attention to the IEX API.

Thanks to Rodrigo Ramírez Norambuena for creating the MagicMirror-Module-Template.

About the author

This project is created and maintaned by György Balássy.

balassy / MMM-SingleStock

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