Introduction

This post outlines a simple approach for adding a stock ticker to Waybar, specifically for a NixOS setup.

Once completed, your final result will look like the following:

Pre-requisites

Before you start, you will need the following:

• An FMP API Key
• A CLI that can fetch a ticker price.
  • In this post we will use stock-ticker, a simple Rust CLI.

Add stock ticker CLI

The waybar module will depend on the stock-ticker CLI.