stock ticker

.config/i3blocks/config

@@ -5,6 +5,11 @@
 #interval=3600
 #color=#A4C2F4
 
+[stock]
+command=/home/dominic/.config/i3blocks/stock_ticker.py
+interval=10
+label=
+
 [cpu]
 command=cat <(grep 'cpu ' /proc/stat) <(sleep 1 && grep 'cpu ' /proc/stat) | awk -v RS="" '{printf "%.2f%\n", ($13-$2+$15-$4)*100/($13-$2+$15-$4+$16-$5)}'
 interval=3

.config/i3blocks/stock_ticker.py

@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+'''
+HOW THIS WORKS:
+    - Install and set up ticker, the linux cli tool to track stock: https://github.com/achannarasappa/ticker
+    - ticker config needs to contain lots, you can just fake the quantity and price...
+    - create a cron job that runs this command:
+ticker --config=./.ticker.yaml print --format=csv | awk -vFPAT='([^,]*)|("[^"]+")' -vOFS=, '{print $2 " " $3}' | tail -n +2 > /tmp/stock_ticker
+    - make sure that file exists, then run this script..
+'''
+import os
+
+STOCK_TICKER_POSITION_PATH = '/tmp/stock_ticker_position'
+STOCK_TICKER_PATH = '/tmp/stock_ticker'
+STOCK_TICKER_POSITION = 0
+STOCK_TICKER_RESET = False
+STOCK_TICKER_LINE_COUNT = 0
+
+if not os.path.exists(STOCK_TICKER_POSITION_PATH):
+    with open(STOCK_TICKER_POSITION_PATH, 'w+') as f:
+        STOCK_TICKER_RESET = True
+        STOCK_TICKER_POSITION = 0
+        f.write('0')
+
+if not STOCK_TICKER_RESET:
+    with open(STOCK_TICKER_POSITION_PATH, 'r') as f:
+        STOCK_TICKER_POSITION = int(f.readline())
+
+with open(STOCK_TICKER_PATH, 'r') as f:
+    data = f.readlines()
+    STOCK_TICKER_LINE_COUNT = len(data) - 2
+
+    print(data[STOCK_TICKER_POSITION])
+
+with open(STOCK_TICKER_POSITION_PATH, 'w+') as f:
+    if STOCK_TICKER_POSITION != None:
+        if STOCK_TICKER_POSITION + 1 <= STOCK_TICKER_LINE_COUNT:
+            f.write(str(STOCK_TICKER_POSITION + 1))
+        else:
+            f.write(str(0))
+    else:
+        f.write(str(0))