In this post, I’ll show you how you can use Emacs and orgmode to query live data from any RESTful webservice, and then use that data in orgmode tables, a really great way to get live table-based calculation and display functionality in your rich orgmode-based documentation. As an example, we will query live ticker data from the Kraken cryptocurrency exchange, and then use the current trading values of two different cryptocurrencies to calculate a fictitious investor’s position.
