Single-line, scraping-powered stock ticker intended for, but not limited to, use with GNOME Shell and the Executor shell extension.
Install Executor (https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/2932/executor/) and configure it to run panel_ticker every second.
Any single ticker symbol may be supplied to panel_ticker as an argument:
path/to/panel_ticker aapl
For certain ambiguous symbols, providing the nasdaq: tag will encourage Google to return stock information more reliably:
path/to/panel_ticker nasdaq:ford
Since open APIs have become scarce, this functions by scraping Google. In order to be courteous (and to avoid getting blocked), the script is configured to query no more than once every 180 seconds.