Free stock quote software for linux

Stock Quote is a Firefox extension that allows you to get stock quote of selected ticker from any financial site that you define in the setting page.

Text::Quote contains quotes strings as required for perl to eval them back correctly.

SYNOPSIS

use Text::Quote;

my @quotes=map{$quoter->quote($_,indent=>6,col_width=>60)}(
"The time has come"
the walrus said,
"to speak of many things..."
," 123456abtn13fr16172021222324252627303132e34353637",
("6abtn13fr32e34" x 5),2/3,10,00);
for my $i (1..@quotes) {
print "$var$i=".$quotes[$i-1].";n";
}
Would produce:
$var1=qq"The time has come"ntthetwalrus said,nt"to speak of man.
qqy things...";
$var2=" 123456abtn13fr16172021222324252627".
"303132e34353637";
$var3=("6abtn13fr32e34" x 5);
$var4=0.666666666666667;
$var5=10;
$var6=00;

Kuotes gets a random quote from wikiquote, fortune or http://www.softwarequotes.com/ and put it to your desktop.

To install it, first uncompress the package, then put the quotes.sh shell script in your ~/bin. Thats all.

To configure, edit ~/.kuotes/config.txt file.

Irssi Quotes System is a script for the Irssi IRC client that provides commands for showing specific or random quotes, searching for quotes using SQL-style wild cards, and adding and deleting quotes.
Commands:
!quote [id] - Shows the quote with that id, or a random quote if none is used.
!search - Searches for *string* - SQL-style wildcards.
!whoset - Shows the author of the quote under that id.
!addquote - Adds a quote in the database.
!db - Prints number of non-deleted quotes in the database.
/delquote - Deletes a quote (actually it just marks the quote as deleted, nobody will be able to see it unless you restore it)
/restore - Restores a quote.
In order to install the irssi quotes system you have to do the following:
Download http://surferz.info/irssi_quotes.sql
Execute it: mysql -p yourdbname < irssi_quotes.sql
Go to your Irssi scripts directory, normally it is ~/.irssi/scripts/
Download http://surferz.info/irssi_quotes.pl
Open irssi_quotes.pl with your favorite text editor and edit these variables:
$database = (yourdbname);
$username = (dbuser);
$password = (dbpass);
Save irssi_quotes.pl
In your Irssi client type: /script load irssi_quotes.pl
Thats it! If you want the script to be loaded automatically at startup, put irssi_quotes.pl in the ~/.irssi/scripts/autorun/ directory. If the directory doesnt exist, create it.
Enhancements:
- Levels were added for the !addquote command.
- The owner can choose who may add quotes: only opped clients, only opped and voiced clients, or everyone.
- The commands must be written on a #channel, as the script wont listen to query windows anymore.

Quotable Homer quotes project consists of Homer Simpson quotes for `fortune`.
In 1999, Fox published a one-a-day calendar of Homer Simpson quotes. On the back of each page was the name of the episode from the quote came, providing us fanatics with some fun trivia.
At some point, I decided that itd be nice to have all of those quotes in a file parsable by `fortune`. So, you get what we have here.
Installing:
Simply place the files `homer and `homer.dat into same the directory as the other fortune files.
Usually, this is (on GNU/Linux) `/usr/share/games/fortunes.
If, for some reason, youd rather not get homer quotes, simply delete the file `homer.dat.
At any later date, you may run `strfile homer` and the .dat file will be recreated. Could it be any easier?
Enhancements:
- this is now released under a license.

Top level aggregator that will select a default lineup of site instances default lineup of site instancesof site instancesof site instancesof site instances from which to retrieve quotes.
Other than the default lineup, this module behaves identically to whichever site-specific module is first in the lineup. See below for site-specific modules.
METHODS
The basic user interface consists of several methods, as seen in the example above. Those methods are:
quotes()
Returns a list of rows (or a reference to an array containing those rows, if in scalar context). Each row contains the Symbol, Date, Open, High, Low, Close, and Volume for that date. Optionally, if non-adjusted values were requested, their will be an extra element at the end of the row for the Adjusted closing price.
dividends()
Returns a list of rows (or a reference to an array containing those rows, if in scalar context). Each row contains the Date and amount of the Dividend, in that order.
splits()
Returns a list of rows (or a reference to an array containing those rows, if in scalar context). Each row contains the Date, Post split shares, and Pre split shares, in that order.
source($ticker, $target)
Each of these methods displays which site-specific class actually retrieved the information, if any, for a particular ticker symbol and target such as quote (default), dividend, or split.
Enhancements:
- The internal structure was changed to use date iterators where appropriate.
- The documentation was fixed for MSN.
- Various minor edge cases were fixed.

Gnome::StockIcons is a Gnome 1.4 stock icons in XPM format.

SYNOPSIS

use Gtk;
use Gnome::StockIcons;

my ( $pixmap, $mask ) = Gtk::Gdk::Pixmap->create_from_xpm_d( $window->window,
$style,
@stock_help );

These are the Gnome 1.4 stock icons. The original PNG files are in gnome-libs-1.4.1.2.90/libgnomeui/pixmaps. All names are identical but - is replaced by _. Currenlty, this only affects calculator-font.png (@calculator_font).
The module does not strictly speaking require Gtk, but its not much use without.

EXPORT

All icons are exported as arrays. See the source for a full list

Finance::YahooQuote is a Perl module that can get stock quotes from Yahoo! Finance.

SYNOPSIS

use Finance::YahooQuote;
# setting TIMEOUT and PROXY is optional
$Finance::YahooQuote::TIMEOUT = 60;
$Finance::YahooQuote::PROXY = "http://some.where.net:8080";
@quote = getonequote $symbol; # Get a quote for a single symbol
@quotes = getquote @symbols; # Get quotes for a bunch of symbols
useExtendedQueryFormat(); # switch to extended query format
useRealtimeQueryFormat(); # switch to real-time query format
@quotes = getquote @symbols; # Get quotes for a bunch of symbols
@quotes = getcustomquote(["DELL","IBM"], # using custom format
["Name","Book Value"]); # note array refs

This module gets stock quotes from Yahoo! Finance. The getonequote function will return a quote for a single stock symbol, while the getquote function will return a quote for each of the stock symbols passed to it. getcustomquote allows to specify a format other than the default to take advantage of the extended range of available information.

The download operation is efficient: only one request is made even if several symbols are requested at once. The return value of getonequote is an array, with the following elements:

0 Symbol
1 Company Name
2 Last Price
3 Last Trade Date
4 Last Trade Time
5 Change
6 Percent Change
7 Volume
8 Average Daily Vol
9 Bid
10 Ask
11 Previous Close
12 Todays Open
13 Days Range
14 52-Week Range
15 Earnings per Share
16 P/E Ratio
17 Dividend Pay Date
18 Dividend per Share
19 Dividend Yield
20 Market Capitalization
21 Stock Exchange

If the extended format has been selected, the following fields are also retrieved:

22 Short ratio
23 1yr Target Price
24 EPS Est. Current Yr
25 EPS Est. Next Year
26 EPS Est. Next Quarter
27 Price/EPS Est. Current Yr
28 Price/EPS Est. Next Yr
29 PEG Ratio
30 Book Value
31 Price/Book
32 Price/Sales
33 EBITDA
34 50-day Moving Avg
35 200-day Moving Avg
If the real-time format has been selected, the following fields are also retrieved:
36 Ask (real-time)
37 Bid (real-time)
38 Change in Percent (real-time)
39 Last trade with time (real-time)
40 Change (real-time)
41 Day range (real-time)
42 Market-cap (real-time)

The getquote function returns an array of pointers to arrays with the above structure.
The getonequote function returns just one quote, rather than an array. It returns a simple array of values for the given symbol.

The setQueryString permits to supply a new query string that will be used for subsequent data requests.

The useExtendedQueryFormat and useRealtimeQueryFormat are simpler interfaces which append symbols to the default quote string, as detailed above.

The getcustomquote returns an array of quotes corresponding to values for the symbols supplied in the first array reference, and the custom fields supplied in the second array reference. Here the custom fields correspond to the named fields of the list below.

Beyond stock quotes, Finance::YahooQuote can also obtain quotes for currencies (from the Philadephia exchange -- however Yahoo! appears to have stopped to support the currency symbols in a reliable manner), US mutual funds, options on US stocks, several precious metals and quite possibly more; see the Yahoo! Finance website for full information. Finance::YahooQuote can be used for stocks from the USA, Canada, various European exchanges, various Asian exchanges (Singapore, Taiwan, HongKong, Kuala Lumpur, ...) Australia and New Zealand. It should work for other markets supported by Yahoo.

You may optionally override the default LWP timeout of 180 seconds by setting $Finance::YahooQuote::TIMEOUT to your preferred value.

You may also provide a proxy (for the required http connection) by using the variable $Finance::YahooQuote::PROXY. Furthermore, authentication-based proxies can be used by setting the proxy user and password via the variables $Finance::YahooQuote::PROXYUSER and $Finance::YahooQuote::PROXYPASSWD.

Two example scripts are provided to help with the mapping a stock symbols as well as with Yahoo! Finance server codes. The regression tests scripts in the t/ subdirectory of the source distribution also contain simple examples.