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?
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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Where would they link to?
Interesting..
Best would be just yahoo finance?
Perhaps finfiz.com or barchart.com?
I would love a plugin with this functionality.
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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
It would be possible with a custom theme component using decorateCookedElement from the Discourse API. 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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Thanks @awesomerobot will do some research into this
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Take a look at: Custom Mentionables - plugin - Discourse Meta as a starting point (you’d have to create the dataset though).
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