Inspired by Pset7, CS50-2018
The Flask app is configured to run on a CS50 IDE.
To run it locally, there are a few steps.
- Use pip install -r requirements.txt
- Use set FLASK_APP=application.py (Windows) and export FLASK_APP=application.py (Linux/MAC)
- Change the line db = SQL("sqlite:///finance.db") to make it use your own local/online sqlite instance (Use sqlite_setup.py for a local instance, which can be downloaded from here)
- Set your gmail settings to allow less secure apps (only if you want to test the email feature-Explained later)
Now, you're good to go 😄
The live demo is hosted at heroku 😀
The various features of the webapp are:
- Profile creation
- Querying the current price of some share
- Buying and selling the shares directly
- Seeing a graphical overview of the fluctuation in share prices over time
- Predicted prices of shares held by the user
- History of transactions
- Tabular representation of current shares
- Adding friends to maintain a trusted list and sending mails to them
- Viewing the most trending shares on that particular day
- Companies can place ads for their shares on the platform for a price
| URL | Function |
|---|---|
| login | Allows user to log in |
| register | User Registration |
| download | Downloads history of transactions in PDF format |
| index | Shows curren shares |
| addFriend, deleteFriend and messageFriend | Adds, removes and messages a user to/from/on the friend list |
| quote | See current price of a share |
| buy, sell | Buy or sell n particular shares |
| live | See updates of user's most important shares graphically |
| ads | Allows companies to place ads |
| funds/add | Allows users to add money to their account |
| change_password | Password change facilitated |
Here are a few images to explain the flow in more detail 😄
- The user is greeted with a list of his/her available stocks on logging in
- Buying a stock
- You can see that a share of NetFlix was bought on the updated interface
- Did I mention that we can get list of all transactions? The history tab supports it, alongside providing facility for downloading the report in PDF format
- The interface for companies to upload ads
- The share prices for a company over the past 10 minutes (can be configured) via Pygal.
- The share prices of companies the user holds most shares of over past 10 minutes (can be cofigured) via Bokeh. Can add AjaxDataSource to make it auto-updating
- Finlly, the error page (classic cat for the CS50 touch)
