terminal-stocks is a terminal-first application for tracking stock market information without leaving the command line.
It lets you query stock data directly from your shell with simple requests, and also offers a dedicated command line interface for looking up ticker information using Yahoo Finance symbols. The software is designed for people who want quick market data, historical prices, and summaries from a lightweight terminal workflow.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Supports comma-separated ticker lists for checking multiple stocks in a single request.
- Shows historical price information, with paginated results for browsing additional entries.
- Provides market summary data from the terminal.
- Includes options to display market state information for a ticker.
- Supports exporting market summary data as JSON or CSV.
Website: github.com/shweshi/terminal-stocks
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Developer: Shashi Prakash Gautam
License: MIT License

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