bloom-term is a tool that displays market prices in your terminal. Not quite as nice as a bloomberg terminal, but at least its free!
The only dependendy for bloom-term is any 3.x version of python.
- Download
bloom-term.pylocally
$ git clone https://github.com/nmiodice/bloom-term.gitor
$ curl -o bloom-term.py https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nmiodice/bloom-term/master/bloom-term.py- Configure
bloom-term
# This controls which symbols bloom-term will query forexport BLOOM_TERM_SYMBOLS="VOO, AMZN, MSFT, DIS, TSLA, VNQ"# This controls how many symbols will be shown on a line. If this value is missing or set to -1,# then all results will be printed on a single line.export BLOOM_TERM_SHOW_PER_LINE="3"# This controls the HTTP timeout. If it takes longer than this many seconds to complete# the request, bloom-term will exit without printing anything to the terminal## If this value is missing, bloom-term will default to a 1 second timeoutexport BLOOM_TERM_TIMEOUT="0.5"- Run
bloom-term
python3 bloom-term.py- Optional: Add to
.bashrc(or similar)
# only run for interactive sessionsif [[ $-==*i* ]];then
BLOOM_TERM_SYMBOLS="VOO, GOOG, MSFT, DIS, TSLA, VNQ" \
BLOOM_TERM_SHOW_PER_LINE="3" \
BLOOM_TERM_TIMEOUT="0.5" \
python3 "/path/to/bloom-term.pyfi