Stonks For Linux

In today's world, getting real-time access to stock market data is as easy as getting our phones out of our pockets or, in some cases, glancing over our smartwatches.

Of course, the classic method of actually using a browser and accessing specialized websites is also somewhat relevant, but it's definitely not the most convenient.

Hence, if you want to check market stock data from the OS itself, then you might want to check out Stonks.

Stonks is a free and open-source, GNOME Shell extension that brings market stock data directly to your desktop. More to the point, it brings said data directly to your OS' top bar and it leverages the finance.yahoo.com API in order to do so.

Now, clearly, this is not the most versatile market index-checking solution out there. Yahoo Finance is without a doubt a very good service for tracking the current state of the market, however, it's not the only service of this sort out there.

The best aspect of Stonks is just how cleanly it integrates into your GNOME system. To enter a stock, you'll need to use the unique abbreviations used by Yahoo Finance (for instance, AMZN is Amazon, GOOG is Google, and TSLA is Tesla). Repeat this procedure until you've entered all the stocks you want to track and that's that.

Now, each time you click the extension's icon, you're instantly provided with a quick overview of the current stock properties. For more information, simply click the symbol, and you'll be instantly transferred to the corresponding page on the Yahoo! finance website.

Stonks is a nice little finance tracker for GNOME that does its job well enough for most people. It's not a comprehensive stock price tracker, but that's perfectly fine, as this extension is only for users who often find themselves checking Yahoo Finance on a daily basis.