# Automatically link stock symbols in posts
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-link-stock-symbols-in-posts/63595
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [30 mei 2017 om 05:14 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-link-stock-symbols-in-posts/63595 "2017-05-30T05:14:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@ide](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ide)
#### Post date: [30 mei 2017 om 05:14 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-link-stock-symbols-in-posts/63595/1 "2017-05-30T05:14:20Z")
I’d like to customize the way posts are rendered on my hosted Discourse instance. For example, if I wanted to link stock symbols that start with a dollar sign (“cashtags”) like $AAPL, how would I do this?
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [30 mei 2017 om 08:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-link-stock-symbols-in-posts/63595/2 "2017-05-30T08:49:19Z")
You would need to write a plugin that would scan the post content for `/\$(\w+)\b/` and replace it with a link to the corresponding stock.
_Note: if you are hosted with us, we only allow custom plugin on the enterprise data plan._
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [30 mei 2017 om 13:39 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-link-stock-symbols-in-posts/63595/3 "2017-05-30T13:39:30Z")
Where would they link to?
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### Author:  [@MarcP](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MarcP)
#### Post date: [27 juni 2021 om 23:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-link-stock-symbols-in-posts/63595/4 "2021-06-27T23:58:32Z")
Interesting..
Best would be just yahoo finance?
Perhaps [finfiz.com](http://finfiz.com) or [barchart.com](http://barchart.com)?
I would love a plugin with this functionality.
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### Author:  [@Neildb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Neildb)
#### Post date: [1 november 2021 om 15:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-link-stock-symbols-in-posts/63595/5 "2021-11-01T15:45:26Z")
Is there a way of adding a live price after a symbol has been typed? Possibly with conditional formatting for green or red depending on its movement.
ie
$APPL **$148.70**
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [1 november 2021 om 15:54 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-link-stock-symbols-in-posts/63595/6 "2021-11-01T15:54:13Z")
It would be possible with a custom theme component using [decorateCookedElement from the Discourse API](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/69381663eb9407f93e96b739290325e4cac34945/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/lib/plugin-api.js#L283). You’d have to make a request to a third-party service to get the stock information, and then pull that in.
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### Author:  [@Neildb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Neildb)
#### Post date: [1 november 2021 om 17:17 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-link-stock-symbols-in-posts/63595/7 "2021-11-01T17:17:34Z")
Thanks @awesomerobot will do some research into this
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [2 november 2021 om 08:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-link-stock-symbols-in-posts/63595/8 "2021-11-02T08:06:48Z")
Take a look at: [Custom Mentionables - plugin - Discourse Meta](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-mentionables/192948) as a starting point (you’d have to create the dataset though).