Global Ticker

The Global Ticker plugin adds customizable information bars to Obsidian, including news Ticker from several sources (Currents, Google News, and Hacker News and custom RSS XML feeds) and a bottom ticker for stock market updates powered by Finnhub. Most aspects of the tickers can be customized to your liking! The APIs were picked from the try Public APIs for free repository.

To use the stocks, you’ll need to register for the Finnhub API to get the data (it's free!). If you would rather not register for an API, this plugin might not be for you. The Get Stock Information plugin may be a better alternative, as it doesn't require registration.

If you only want the Hacker News headlines, Obsidian HackerNews may be a better alternative.

📑 Index

• ⚙️ Settings
  • 📚 XML Reader
  • 👾 Hacker News
  • 📰 Google News
  • 🌊 Currents News
  • 💸 Finnhub Stocks
• 💾 Cache
• ⚠️ Limits

⚙️ Settings

General settings found are:

• Display: Choose which ticker to display using the toggle in each ticker's settings section.
• Speed: Controls the scrolling speed. Four options are available: super slow, slow, medium, and fast.
• Direction: Sets scrolling direction to either left or right.
• Refresh: Refresh and fetch information using the individual buttons in each section's settings. There is also an option to refresh headlines every time Obsidian starts.
• Footer: Each ticker includes an optional footer that can be shown or hidden.
  • footer: On the left, it displays the last refresh time, with the option to use either dd/mm/yy or mm/dd/yy format. On the right, it includes a button to fetch data without having to open the settings.
• Underline: Each ticker, except the Finnhub one, includes an optional underline with metadata.
  • underline: Contains the source and category of each headline. Not all fetched headlines have categories, so this field may be empty. If a headline displays a category different from the selected ones, it's because headlines can belong to multiple categories.
  • Color: Pick the color of the underline text.
• Headline Limit: Sets the maximum number of headlines to display. The upper limit depends on the source. The default is 10 headlines.

📚 XML Reader

The XML Reader lets users add RSS feeds in XML format and display the latest news from those feeds.

• RSS Feed URLs: Enter one or more RSS feed URLs, separated by commas.
  • Headlines are displayed by alternating between feeds in the order the URLs were entered.
  • You can check for feeds here.
  • Not all feeds are compatible, as some may not use the XML structure expected by the parser.

👾 Hacker News

The Hacker News RSS feed provides technology-focused headlines and discussions from a variety of sources.

• Feed: Choose which feed to fetch: Front page, newest, ask HN, show HN, jobs, and active.
• Search terms: Filter headlines using comma-separated search terms. Terms are matched using OR logic.

📰 Google News

The Google News RSS feed provides news headlines from various sources. You can find an explanation of how Google News RSS URLs work here.

• Topic: Choose which topic to fetch: Top stories, world, business, technology, sports.
• Language: Set the language using an IETF BCP 47 language tag with a region subtag. Examples include en-US (American English), en-GB (British English), es-MX (Mexican Spanish), es-ES (European Spanish), de-DE (German), and fr-FR (French).
• Country: Set the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Examples include US (United States of America), and ES (Spain).

🌊 Currents News

The Currents News API provides global headlines from various sources. It offers the most customization of the available news sources, but its free plan has some limitations: up to 20 requests per day and a maximum of 10 headlines per request.

• Category: Choose which category to fetch. The list of available categories can be found at /v1/available/categories.
• Domain: Filter results by specific website domains. Check if the domain is found in the database here.
• Domain_not: Exclude specific domains from the results.
• Country: Filter headlines by region. The list of 70+ supported country codes can be found at /v1/available/regions.
• Language: Filter headlines by language. The list of 18+ valid language codes be found at /v1/available/languages. The headlines are clickable and will open the original source for more information.

💸 Finnhub Stocks

The stock ticker uses the Finnhub API to retrieve global stock quotes. It displays the last fetched price and percentage change.

• Symbol: Select the stock symbols to show. To see which symbols are supported, refer to /v1/stock/symbol, which includes a large list of available options.
• Color: Pick the color of the price, negative and positive percentages.

💾 Cache

Headlines are stored in a persistent cache within the plugin's data storage. This allows the most recently fetched data to remain visible while offline or when a fetch request fails.

⚠️ Limits

• Some sources included in Currents News and Google News may be behind paywalls. For Currents News, you may want to exclude those domains if you do not have a subscription.
• The number of headlines displayed depends on how many headlines are actually available for the selected settings. For example, if the headline limit is set to 10 but only 5 matching headlines are available, only those 5 will be displayed.
• Not all feeds are compatible with the XML reader.