Webinar
April 17, 2020

How Giant Machines Built Stock Price Widgets Using IEX Cloud

IEX Cloud teamed up with Giant Machines, a product design and development agency in New York City, to bring you stock price widgets.

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Jessie Schroeder

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IEX Cloud teamed up with Giant Machines, a product design and development agency in New York City, to bring you stock price widgets. They display current, updated stock prices on your website or application, and can be installed by simply copy-pasting a few lines of code.

On April 9, 2020, Giant Machines joined IEX Cloud live to share more about their development process – including how their team avoided messy API polling mechanisms, cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) errors, and more.

Check out the recording above to learn more. Giant Machines also shared their development process on their blog.

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Directory

0:00 – 12:30: Introduction to IEX Cloud

12:30 – 16:30: New products on IEX Cloud

16:30 – 34:30: How Giant Machines built stock price widgets using IEX Cloud

34:30 – 37:10: Stock price widgets demo

37:10 - 53:47: Q&A with the Giant Machines and IEX Cloud teams

How do I install and use the stock price widget?

IEX Cloud widgets can be integrated into applications or websites that support HTML. Setup is simple.

  1. Turn on access to widgets by going to the "Premium Data" tab in the IEX Cloud Console and enabling "Stock Price Widgets by Giant Machines."
    Go to Premium Data
  2. Head to the "Widgets" tab to customize your widgetʼs design. Choose your widgetʼs theme, the stock symbol youʼd like to display, and the widget size.
    Go to Widgets
  3. Copy the code snippet from the Console into your website or application HTML source code.
  4. Your widget is ready to go!

Where do I learn more?

Check out our Help Center to read more about setup and pricing.

Go to Help Center

About Giant Machines

Giant Machines is a product design and development agency based in New York City. Their team builds one-of-a-kind, breakthrough software – anything from eCommerce platforms to real-time trading systems for the financial industry.