Bloom Term

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!

Dependencies

The only dependendy for bloom-term is any 3.x version of python.

Usage

Download bloom-term.py locally

$ git clone https://github.com/nmiodice/bloom-term.git

$ 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 for
export 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 timeout
export BLOOM_TERM_TIMEOUT="0.5"

Run bloom-term

python3 bloom-term.py

Optional: Add to .bashrc (or similar)

# only run for interactive sessions
if [[ $- == *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.py
fi