Comments on: Stock Quotes on your Desktop with Conky

By: shapeshifter

shapeshifter — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:32:31 +0000

Hi Bhavik great script. One thing.

I have about 7 or 8 stocks, but the script only displays 5. I tried playing with Conky width etc and looking at your stocks.py, but couldn’t change.

Many thanks

By: Duplication

Duplication — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:03:42 +0000

Interesting developments guy. Good work!

By: darian

darian — Wed, 26 May 2010 21:25:57 +0000

Hi Bhavik!

What a usefull script! I do have the same problem as wiejak though. I tried adjusting the maximum_width, sadly to no avail. It would be great if you could help me out on this one!

Btw: I complemented your script with percentage changes:

num = float(tokens[4])
num2 = float(tokens[1])
change = round((num/num2)*100, 2)

Thanks mate, have a nice day!

By: Pedro

Pedro — Tue, 11 May 2010 14:39:48 +0000

On SUDO this work….

By: Pedro

Pedro — Tue, 11 May 2010 14:24:03 +0000

Dear, on my computer return this error.

/etc/conky$ python stocks.py CAKE

Name Value Open Change Time
——————————————–
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “stocks.py”, line 31, in
csv = urllib2.urlopen(‘http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=’+ stock +’&f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv’)
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py”, line 126, in urlopen
return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py”, line 391, in open
response = self._open(req, data)
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py”, line 409, in _open
‘_open’, req)
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py”, line 369, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py”, line 1161, in http_open
return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req)
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py”, line 1136, in do_open
raise URLError(err)
urllib2.URLError:

anyone know what happens?

thx