gch-truefx-pricefeed
v0.0.9
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LIVE FX price feed FREE from trueFX
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TrueFX price service
TrueFX price service hooks into the FREE fx price service offered by TrueFX and emits price updates on your selected currency pair via web sockets.
For more information on the implementation, please read the following article Full stack part 1: Creating an FX price feed
Table of Contents
Implementation
Dependencys
Assumptions : You have node and npm installed
- You will need to register at http://www.truefx.com/ to get a username and password
- socket.io - cheerio - request
Installation
- install the node package from npm via the following command.
npm install gch-truefx-priceservice
Usage
- Create trueFXConfig constructor object using your username and password from truefx and a delimeted list of currency pairs.
var trueFXConfig = {
userName:'trueFXuserName',
password:'trueFXPassword',
curPairs : 'EUR/CAD,GBP/USD,EUR/JPY,GBP/JPY,GBP/CAD,EUR/AUD'
};
- Set up your socket server with your http server
var io = require('socket.io');
io = io.listen(server);
- Call the fxprice-srv constructor
require('gch-truefx-pricefeed')(io,trueFXConfig);
API
The following event is emmited from the fx price service
socket.emit('fxPriceUpdate', {
payload: fxPriceData
});
A client needs to be capturing the `fxPriceUpdate' event.
In the demo example, angular and the socket.io library is used to handle the event.
$scope.$on('socket:fxPriceUpdate', function(event, data) {
$scope.rates = data.payload;
});
Payload
The returned object in the payload is an array of symbolVO's ( value objects ). Each indivdual VO has the follwoing structure.
{
symbol: '',
timeStamp: '',
bidBig: '',
bidPoint: '',
offerBig: '',
offerPoint: '',
high: '',
low: '',
mid: '',
bidBullBear: '' ,
offerBullBear: ''
};
Demo
Please see the READme in the Demo folder for instruction on how to get the demo up and running.
Contributing
Open an issue first to discuss potential changes/additions.
License
(The MIT License)
Copyright (c) 2014 Bill Gooch
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