What's Tickergram?

Tickergram is a Telegram bot to look up quotes, charts, general market sentiment and more. It can be used collaboratively in group chats or by talking directly to it. Users can also keep a watchlist and receive price information notifications.

Supporting Tickergram

I run an instance of Tickergram at @tickergrambot. By becoming a sponsor, you will support the project and get access to this bot instance. Check the sponsor tiers for more information.

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Bot commands

• /quote get quote
• /chart [1y,6m,5d] get price and volume chart
• /watch list|add|del [symbol] list, add or remove symbol from your watchlist
• /watchlist get an overview of your watchlist
• /watchlistnotify toggle the automatic watchlist notifications on and off
• /overview get an overview of global ETFs
• /feargreed get picture of CNN's Fear & Greed Index

Requirements

• Python 3.9+
• Python requirements, most notably yfinance, which is used to get financial information. The data provider may change in the future.
• Redis, used as database to keep both permanent and temporary data (cache).
• (Optional) Firefox is used by bot commands that take website screenshots, such as /feargreed.

Installation

• Talk to the @BotFather to create a new bot and get its token.
• Install Redis.
• Install Tickergram and its dependencies by running python setup.py install.
• Run the bot with the assistance of the self-explanatory help message:

$ tickergram-bot -h
usage: tickergram-bot [-h] [-p PASSWORD] [-r REDIS] [-l PORT] [-d DB] token

Tickergram bot

positional arguments:
  token                 Telegram Bot API token

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -p PASSWORD, --password PASSWORD
                        Optional password needed to interact with the bot (enables the /auth command)
  -r REDIS, --redis REDIS
                        redis host to use
  -l PORT, --port PORT  redis port to use
  -d DB, --db DB        redis database to use

If Tickergram is running correctly, the output should be similar to this:

$ tickergram-bot 
   
    
2021-09-28 19:52:58,820 Checking Telegram API token ...
2021-09-28 19:52:58,942 Telegram API token is valid
2021-09-28 19:52:58,942 Testing Redis connectivity ...
2021-09-28 19:52:58,944 Redis connection is ok
2021-09-28 19:52:58,946 Bot is running with pid 116526

   

Usage

After sending the Telegram message /start or /help to the bot, it will reply with the supported bot commands.

The bot administrator can notify chat watchlists (when notifications are enabled) with the command tickergram-notify. It may be a good idea to run this command on a regular basis (for example at market open) using crontab.

Author

Alberto Ortega

License

MIT