Simple overview: Command based input (i.e. chatbot) to receive specific results based on the command input. Currently works for receiving the most recent relevant Google search news result for the keyword(s) you supply or a command to receive a current stock market quote of the supplied stock ticker.
This is basically just a “for fun” Tines story I did to see what the capabilities were. It was a little more complex (at least at the time) to setup. I needed to integrate another 3rd party service (in this case Pipedream) to be able to receive text commands from my social channel. Within Pipedream, I parse the command to determine what needs to happen. Afterwards a specific formatted request is sent to the Tines story, where it will either make an HTTP request to a stock market quote API or google news API. The retrieved data is then parsed and formatted to send back to the channel where the request was originally made.
At some point, and with the right stock market and trading account API service, this could potentially be turned into a stock market trading bot. A user’s own trading setup/algorithm could potentially be used here, which would work 24/7 based off set conditions. I believe in most cases, an actual program/script may need to be created in order to calculate and store values for historical/current stock prices and technical indicators to be able to reference datapoints for the algorithm trading conditions. This may be able to be done fully within Tines with little to no code, but could be fairly complex more-so than just creating an actual script/program.
Concepts this Tines story uses: