buy - Buy Stocks for Free from the Command Line
buy -symbol=... -quantity=... [options]
Examples: buy -username=getMoney -password=*** -symbol=MSFT -quantity=2000 buy -token=9afcdbe... -symbol=MSFT -quantity=2000 Options: -username your Robinhood username -password your Robinhood password -token your Robinhood access token -symbol trading symbol of the security * -quantity number of shares to buy * -help brief help message -man full documentation * required arguments
Your Robinhood username.
Your Robinhood password.
Robinhood provides access tokens for authorization which is great because you don't need to keep providing your username or password on the command line!
You can get it by passing a false -token arg along with your -username and -password:
-token
-username
-password
$ buy -username=secret -password=supersecret -token=0 -symbol=MSFT -quantity=200
And on subsequent runs, just provide the -token:
$ buy -token=a9c321... -symbol=RHT -quantity=50
The ticker symbol of the security you'd like to place an order for.
The number of shares you'd like to order.
Dumps a lot of random debugging stuff to the terminal including private keys.
Be very careful where you use this!
Print a brief help message and exits.
Prints the manual page and exits.
buy will place a market order for the security of your choice to be executed immediatly.
To install Finance::Robinhood, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Finance::Robinhood
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Finance::Robinhood
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.