Chrome extension for GLBSE

[piotr_n]

UPDATE:
After I have realized that GLBSE is one big shit-hole, and the owner of the service is just a goat's laying bitch, I have decided to discontinue development of this extension to not encourage people to fall into the scam.
Therefore I have put the extension offline.
Sorry.

I've made this extension for my own needs, but if anyone is interested (and trusts me) you can install it in your own Chrome and feel welcome to use it.

I keep changing it every day and I don't really have a list of all the things it does, but such would be the main features:

• Click on the badge icon to see the history of all your transactions and browse through it in a nice way
• At the Portfolio page you get an additional info about every asset (i.e. your profit/loss)
• At the assets' pages: you get the buy/sell price filled in automatically, the depth chart looks readable, the orders table initially shows only the 5 first rows and the time of when a dividend was paid is shown in the local time
• At the Market page you can see the number of total GLBSE's volume (for 24h, 5d and ever)

You can install the extension from the Google Web Store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/joejlamampjfbiojkbkdekjjlmjifnhf
... or manually (Extensions/Developer mode/Load unpacked extension...) after downloading the files from: https://github.com/piotrnar/chromeglbse

It only works when you are logged in to your glbse.com account.
Also remember that when the extension is enabled your GLBSE session will never expire - if you want to log out, you need to do it manually.

Any feedback welcome, unless it's "I don't trust you", in which case I don't care

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[gweedo]

Put it up on github so we can see the source before installing it, it would give more trust on your part, and YES I KNOW I CAN DOWNLOAD THAT UNZIP IT AND LOOK AT THE SOURCE but that is annoying.

[piotr_n]

Put it up on github so we can see the source before installing it, it would give more trust on your part, and YES I KNOW I CAN DOWNLOAD THAT UNZIP IT AND LOOK AT THE SOURCE but that is annoying.

You cannot be sure that the github source would be the same as the one in the goggle store.
So just download, unzip and look at the source, if you want - that's the only way to be sure.

[piotr_n]

On the other hand, if it gets popular, I will put in on git one day so people could track the changes.
In the meantime, you can get the zip from here: http://speedy.sh/VSXN4/glb.zip

[gweedo]

Put it up on github so we can see the source before installing it, it would give more trust on your part, and YES I KNOW I CAN DOWNLOAD THAT UNZIP IT AND LOOK AT THE SOURCE but that is annoying.

You cannot be sure that the github source would be the same as the one in the goggle store.
So just download, unzip and look at the source, if you want - that's the only way to be sure.

who said I was ever going to download it from the chrome store. If I have the git clone source I will just load that into chrome and it will always be update since whenever a git commit is made I will fetch it but I will look at the zip for now

[piotr_n]

Got ya. I will put it on github as soon, as I learn how to do it - not today though

[piotr_n]

FYI, the sources are on github already: https://github.com/piotrnar/chromeglbse

[molecular]

great! will take a look later, subbing to be reminded.

[Francesco]

Great! I was really looking for something like this, thanks  

Of course, there are quite some things that could be better.

1) Never stressed enough, if you want anyone to trust your code and contribute: better explainations, both in code and in user interface.

2) ...curiosity: why are PPT.A...PPT.E "assumed at 1.28"?

3) the number in the badge could really only count new things, not ALL of them. For now it's not a problem, but it's just not optimal. And also the colour could indicate something.

4) most important of all, for now: is the value of my actions simply calculated on the max price (to sell)? Because now I noticed a sudden burst in the value of my SILVER shares: and it's probably because someone decided he would buy them at 10% more than next bid -almost the price at which he could get them immediatly. But, only THREE of them. I don't know if it's a joke or something, but with just 0,03 BTC he screws the real price. If the program doesn't take this possibility into account, it should in future releases: verify you could really liquidate at that price, and it's not three shares against hundreds. the outlier has gone away, and the estimated value is still the same, so I suppose the issue doesn't exist. Great work!

Of course, if you are too busy ...I could always do it myself, as soon as I have a little time; and share the result. The magic of open source

[piotr_n]

"How to evaluate the value of your assets" - it's always a dilemma.

Now I do it like this:

• For the PPT.x bonds - assume 1.28BTC per share
• If there is 24h average - assume this price minus 0.5% per share
• If there is 5 day average - assume this price minus 0.5% per share
• Otherwise assume the current highest bid minus 0.5% per share

Feel free to change whatever you want, but as I said I made this extension for myself, it meets my own needs and my needs not necessarily meet yours.
Though you are welcome to start developing your own branch.

[Bitcoin Oz]

Wow glad i found this thread. Could you create an extension that has better charts ?

Perhaps glbse needs an "app store" for all these things?

[piotr_n]

That's my next goal, but its not easy since the charts data are embedded into html, into javascript, into local variables of nameless functions...
So far I only have a version that always hides the charts - and you know what, I like the pages without the charts more
If you want I can push it to github.

[Bitcoin Oz]

That's my next goal, but its not easy since the charts data are embedded into html, into javascript, into local variables...
So far I only have a version that always hides the charts - and you know what, I like the pages without the charts more
If you want I can push it to github.

Nice work.

Do you do firefox extensions too ?

[piotr_n]

Do you do firefox extensions too ?

No - no experience with firefox extensions whatsoever.

[piotr_n]

You can try the current version 1.0.2 - the depth chart should be improved.

[Francesco]

Small annoying issue: buying shares directly from the issuer (via "transfer" option) makes their price appear as 0, and so 100% profit.
Should in some way recognise the tansfers as payments; maybe the only way is guess, and then offer the option to manually confirm the price for those shares, saving it as local storage.

[piotr_n]

Small annoying issue: buying shares directly from the issuer (via "transfer" option) makes their price appear as 0, and so 100% profit.
Should in some way recognise the tansfers as payments; maybe the only way is guess, and then offer the option to manually confirm the price for those shares, saving it as local storage.

I get you point, but solving this sounds like a tough one.
And I don't have any of such shares so I wouldn't be able to test it.

[Francesco]

Small annoying issue: buying shares directly from the issuer (via "transfer" option) makes their price appear as 0, and so 100% profit.
Should in some way recognise the tansfers as payments; maybe the only way is guess, and then offer the option to manually confirm the price for those shares, saving it as local storage.

I get you point, but solving this sounds like a tough one.
And I don't have any of such shares so I wouldn't be able to test it.

It quite is. Transfers get shown on the portfolio page, so if you see a transfer of shares in and a transfer of money out around the same time, you can quite safely assume that was the price. But in my case I bought two different shares at the same time from the same person, and you would have never a way to know what pays what. That's why the only workaround is probably to offer the possibility to manually specify what the price was.

[piotr_n]

It quite is. Transfers get shown on the portfolio page, so if you see a transfer of shares in and a transfer of money out around the same time, you can quite safely assume that was the price. But in my case I bought two different shares at the same time from the same person, and you would have never a way to know what pays what. That's why the only workaround is probably to offer the possibility to manually specify what the price was.

If you want to change the source code I could try to walk you through.

It's all in the file background.js in the function howmuchspent()
Just insert such a line of code:

Code:

if (id=="THE_SHARE") sum.buy+= 232.50

... just before this line:

Code:

sum.sum = sum.buy+sum.fee-sum.div

Replace THE_SHARE with the ticker of the shares and 232.50 with the total BTC amount you paid for them.
Make sure to reload the extensions for the changes to take effect.

[Francesco]

Maybe I'll try, thanks.

But for now... doesn't work at all on OpenSUSE, it appears. Just no rection (nor click nor badge), very odd. Version 1.0.3, tried both from source and from store.

(in the Portfolio page it does show only liquid Btc in asset value, and changes the layout but no data is inserted. So apparently it's Ajax failing)