stock-talk

This repository contains the code a Flask application that allows a user to add stock symbols and track them in the dashboard.

Endpoints

• GET /register: Renders the register page
• GET /login: Renders the login page
• GET /search: Takes sym parameter and fetches stock symbols
• GET /timeseries: Takes sym parameter and fetches timeseries stock values
• GET /dashboard: Renders the dashboard page
• POST /register: Creates a user in the database
• POST /login: Creates a user session with existing user
• POST /logout: Logs out a user session
• POST /save: Takes a sym data parameter and saves it against a user
• POST /remove: Takes a sym data parameter and deletes it from the database

Requirements

All the code is written in Python 3. The primary database is MongoDB. The dependencies can be installed by:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

The stock market data is supplied by Alpha Vantage API. Before starting, get your API key and add it to the file stocktalk/config/dev.py.

Run the app

Activate the virtual environment.

$ source activate <venv>

The necessary development environment variables can be set by:

$ source dev.env

Once the environment is activated, run the app using:

$ flask run

A screenshot of the dashboard: