Stock Extension

Inspiration

A desire to relate news articles to current financial markets.

At this time, it takes a user-inputted stock ticker and then returns current stock information in a popup Google Chrome extension.

This is a Google Chrome extension written in JavaScript primarily, along with relevant a HTML document. The

Lack of knowledge about web development. Inability to search for stock tickers by company name.

Web development is a lot harder than it looks.

Adding functionality to crawl a webpage for tickers and automatically load them up.

I worked primarily on finding an API to use and implement. I trialed a handful only to find out how particular Chrome is with extensions retrieving data. In the end, I wrote much of the code to retrieve the data from the API as well as code to easily access the retrieved data.

Trevor H
For this project I worked on developing the crawling functionality and searching the text of articles for relevant stock. I also wrote code to deal with API calls

Mehul Patel
Matthew Clayton