A bullion market value calculator using Google App Engine
A couple of weeks ago I went to a Python meetup and went through some of the Google App Engine tutorial. It wasn’t long before I started making a tool that I’ve looked for but haven’t found. The tool probably exists somewhere, but I took the opportunity to make the simple tool and learn Google App Engine at the same time.
Enter the amount of gold, silver, and platinum bullion you would like to find the current market value of (according to Kitco’s New York data). Click Submit. It tells you the spot price value of your hoard. It is not currently doing the per-user thing, but eventually you’ll be able to log in using your Google account and then when you visit I’ll pre-populate the fields with the last ones you used. Maybe one day I’ll make it look like a real Web page too.
Ye who be coders, this is a pretty simple example of using Google App Engine. I am using Google’s urlfetch to get the data from Kitco, using Google’s memcache to avoid pounding Kitco’s site, and I have some of Google’s user and db functions in there but those aren’t yet fully functional. See non-pretty py source and the insignificant yaml source.
P.S. This app was working, and now isn’t, but works locally with the SDK so I’m hoping it will just start working again.