Using Python I was able to create a finance app to text me stock prices and news. Other capabilties include tracking trends and the abiltiy to add stocks to my portfolio.
Using Google Finance and Beautiful Soup
Using Beautiful soup I was able to create a webpage scraper. Running an HTTP GET request returns a string of information. Using BeautifulSoup with Python, I was able to sift through that information and extract a stock's current market price. The program then texts this stock value and any relevant news articles to my cell phone.
