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@linexer2016 Yessir I shall. I pulled a bunch of links to API's and started walking through them yesterday, and will be spending more time today on them.

CharlesV wrote: Sun Apr 06, 2025 11:50 am @linexer2016 Yessir I shall. I pulled a bunch of links to API's and started walking through them yesterday, and will be spending more time today on them.

Thanks Charles. Looking fwd 2 what you may come up with. I expect it's not a too easy task though. What a pity JStock seems to have failed. As other posts in this thread suggest and our experience it has indeed done just that.

linexer2016 wrote: Tue Apr 08, 2025 2:59 am

CharlesV wrote: Sun Apr 06, 2025 11:50 am @linexer2016 Yessir I shall. I pulled a bunch of links to API's and started walking through them yesterday, and will be spending more time today on them.

Thanks Charles. Looking fwd 2 what you may come up with. I expect it's not a too easy task though. What a pity JStock seems to have failed. As other posts in this thread suggest and our experience it has indeed done just that.

Well... judging form the API's I have been looking at, I suspect it will be a little bit of a challenge. (just finding the right API is interesting - everything from free-screen-scraping ... to $50 a month for api keys) .

It shall be interesting.

CharlesV wrote: Tue Apr 08, 2025 12:27 pm

linexer2016 wrote: Tue Apr 08, 2025 2:59 am

CharlesV wrote: Sun Apr 06, 2025 11:50 am @linexer2016 Yessir I shall. I pulled a bunch of links to API's and started walking through them yesterday, and will be spending more time today on them.

Thanks Charles. Looking fwd 2 what you may come up with. I expect it's not a too easy task though. What a pity JStock seems to have failed. As other posts in this thread suggest and our experience it has indeed done just that.

Well... judging form the API's I have been looking at, I suspect it will be a little bit of a challenge. (just finding the right API is interesting - everything from free-screen-scraping ... to $50 a month for api keys) .

It shall be interesting.

Makes one wonder how the author of JStock managed to achieve what he did for the years he did it. Maybe the Yahoo (free?) feed being abandoned was what led to the demise of that very good program.

linexer2016 wrote: Wed Apr 09, 2025 7:46 am Makes one wonder how the author of JStock managed to achieve what he did for the years he did it. Maybe the Yahoo (free?) feed being abandoned was what led to the demise of that very good program.

Back in the Windows Vista/7 era both OS X and Windows had competing special-purpose JavaScript desktop utilities, one called "widgets" and the other called "gadgets" and I honestly forget which was which. I'd found a [wid|gad]get for checking the stock market and added it to my laptop, customizing it with a curated list of stocks and even adding my positions and cost bases where applicable so I could track how my retirement plans were looking during standard NYSE trading hours. Red text for losses, green text for gains. Nothing big. Nothing fancy. No graphs, no trend lines. Just Christmas tree-colored text in a small font so I could glance at it once in a while between checking e-mail or switching between applications. I didn't want big text for a number of reasons, not the least of which was just keeping people from (literally) knowing my business. My boss at the time noticed it during a staff meeting out of the corner of his eye and got nosy about it. "What's that?" he asked. "My stocks," I said. "When all this turns green, I quit," I told him. He looked dejected. "Oh," he replied. "I thought it was a real-time display of our servers or something." I stared at him in silence.

"Please start turning green," I thought to myself.

I maintained my personal little fork of that application until Yahoo! Finance changed their APIs and I don't exactly remember how many hacks and workarounds I found online and implemented back when Google still yielded relevant results, but eventually the magic ran out and I declined to write screen-scraping code and/or a browser extension to get the results I wanted. This suggests that the Yahoo! Finance folks didn't care to use their endpoint buoying the free ticker tools at least as far back as Windows 7, and I recall having moved beyond a daily dependence on such a desktop gizmo before moving to Windows 8.

DukeComposed wrote: Wed Apr 09, 2025 8:37 am

linexer2016 wrote: Wed Apr 09, 2025 7:46 am Makes one wonder how the author of JStock managed to achieve what he did for the years he did it. Maybe the Yahoo (free?) feed being abandoned was what led to the demise of that very good program.

"... "What's that?" he asked. "My stocks," I said. "When all this turns green, I quit," I told him. He looked dejected. "Oh," he replied. "I thought it was a real-time display of our servers or something." I stared at him in silence.

"Please start turning green," I thought to myself.

Duke I suppose in these volatile times you may well still be seeking the green :)

linexer2016 wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 5:56 am
Duke I suppose in these volatile times you may well still be seeking the green :)

The last few weeks has left *me* seeing read ...lol

For a status ... I believe I have a stable, working API call and am almost ready to finalize the logic for at least a ticker. I will be moving onto UI in a couple of days, and this will be a little more of a challenge - I am writing in Python as I have found those API's appear to be better than the java API's I found out there.

Making progress.. but slow still ;-/

CharlesV wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 10:32 am

linexer2016 wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 5:56 am
Duke I suppose in these volatile times you may well still be seeking the green :)

The last few weeks has left *me* seeing read ...lol

For a status ... I believe I have a stable, working API call and am almost ready to finalize the logic for at least a ticker. I will be moving onto UI in a couple of days, and this will be a little more of a challenge - I am writing in Python as I have found those API's appear to be better than the java API's I found out there.

Making progress.. but slow still ;-/

That's great news Charles. Looking fwd 2 wot u may come up with. Cheers.