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Re: [gNewSense-users] Gold Price Tracker?


From: Matthew Flaschen
Subject: Re: [gNewSense-users] Gold Price Tracker?
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 05:18:24 -0400
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Koh Choon Lin wrote:
>>> Do you know of any 'free as in speech' widget or application to track
>>> the price of gold/ounce real time in gNS? It can be GUI or CLI.
>> Getting a real-time data feed is the hard part.  The software should be
>> fairly trivial.
> 
> Well, I found one live feed at:
> 
> https://online.kitco.com/scripts/cgi-bin/texten.pl
> 
> Anyone idea on a script to pull data off this site?

Sure.  A basic script is attached.  It gives the NY spot prices from
that page.

There are various ways it could be tweaked depending what you're looking
for.

Matt Flaschen

Attachment: gold.sh
Description: application/shellscript


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