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StockSocket

Real-Time Yahoo Finance Stock data.

This module opens a Websocket connection with Yahoo for reliable, fast, and lightweight market data.

const StockSocket = require("stocksocket");

StockSocket.addTicker("TSLA", stockPriceChanged);

function stockPriceChanged(data) {
  //Choose what to do with your data as it comes in.
  console.log(data);
}

Installation

This is a Node.js module available through the npm registry.

If this is a brand new project, make sure to create a package.json first with the npm init command.

Installation is done using the npm install command:

$ npm install stocksocket

How does it work?

Yahoo Finance uses Websockets to transfer stock data when you open their page on your browser.
This module leverages that functionality by opening its own direct WebSocket connection with Yahoo (skipping the need for the browser in the process).
As a result, this module is far more lightweight and quick than previous versions of this module (which used Puppeteer and inefficient web-scraping).

Sample Output

Pre-Market

{
  id: 'TSLA',
  price: 610.0977172851562,
  time: '1623352065000',
  exchange: 'NMS',
  quoteType: 'EQUITY',
  marketHours: 'PRE_MARKET',
  changePercent: 1.8901244401931763,
  change: 11.31768798828125,
  priceHint: '2'
}

Regular Market (Contains Real-Time Volume Updates)

{
  id: 'TSLA',
  price: 610.0977172851562,
  time: '1623352065000',
  exchange: 'NMS',
  quoteType: 'EQUITY',
  marketHours: 'REGULAR_MARKET',
  changePercent: 1.8901244401931763,
  dayVolume: '21090676',
  change: 11.31768798828125,
  priceHint: '2'
}

Post-Market

{
  id: 'TSLA',
  price: 610.0977172851562,
  time: '1623352065000',
  exchange: 'NMS',
  quoteType: 'EQUITY',
  marketHours: 'POST_MARKET',
  changePercent: 1.8901244401931763,
  change: 11.31768798828125,
  priceHint: '2'
}

Cryptocurrencies

{
  id: 'ETH-USD',
  price: 2465.013916015625,
  time: '1623352142000',
  currency: 'USD',
  exchange: 'CCC',
  quoteType: 'CRYPTOCURRENCY',
  marketHours: 'REGULAR_MARKET',
  changePercent: -4.241476535797119,
  dayVolume: '29413464064',
  dayHigh: 2615.832763671875,
  dayLow: 2463.379150390625,
  change: -109.18408203125,
  shortName: 'Ethereum USD',
  lastSize: '29413464064',
  priceHint: '2',
  vol_24hr: '29413464064',
  volAllCurrencies: '29413464064',
  fromcurrency: 'ETH',
  lastMarket: 'CoinMarketCap',
  circulatingSupply: 116236768,
  marketcap: 286525260000
}

Docs

addTicker(stockticker, callback)

Start data stream for a specific ticker

var stockticker = "TSLA";

StockSocket.addTicker(stockticker, stockPriceChanged);

function stockPriceChanged(data) {
  console.log(data);
}

stockticker (type: String)

String object containing a stock ticker to be added.

callback (type: Function)

Callback Function that receives each price update

addTickers([stocktickers], callback)

Start data stream for an array of tickers

var stocktickers = ["TSLA", "NNDM", "AAPL", "MARA"];

StockSocket.addTickers(stocktickers, stockPriceChanged);

function stockPriceChanged(data) {
  console.log(data);
}

stocktickers (type: Array)

Array of string objects containing the stock tickers