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Hello 👋

To start with the conclusion: Hermes Agent is an LLM chat gateway, not a data scraper. The lack of sudo and ensurepip inside the container is by design—this image is not intended for installing Python packages, so running pip install yfinance is not the correct approach.

If you want to "send me daily stock market updates," I suggest splitting this into two services:

1. Data Scraping Service (a Python project you write yourself)

• Use yfinance for US stocks, or twstock / FinMind for Taiwan stocks.
• Deploy it as a standard Python service on Zeabur, using cron or a schedule library to run it daily.
• Write the results to a database, a file, or push messages to Telegram.

2. Hermes Agent (the one you have already deployed)

• If you want Hermes to "understand" the data, you can connect them in two ways:
• Have the scraping service send the formatted prompt directly to Hermes' /v1/chat/completions endpoint.
• Or use MCP/tool-use to let Hermes actively call your scraping service API.

If you just want to "receive daily stock market messages," you don't necessarily need an LLM; step 1 alone with a Telegram bot would be sufficient.

If you'd like to discuss what kind of information you want to display (raw quotes? AI commentary?), feel free to reply with more details about your use case, and we can provide more specific architectural advice.

I am new to AI AGENTs, so I am still a bit confused:

1. I don't think I have the skills to write a Python project myself.
2. Are there any tutorial websites where I can learn about this?

I previously had an AI scrape web data, and it did successfully retrieve stock holdings, but it consumed a huge amount of tokens on the first try. I tried adjusting the model.

What I want to achieve is: 1. Scrape stock price data daily, 2. Perform stock price analysis in the future, 3. Perform value analysis, 4. Provide investment advice, 5. Integrate major daily stock market news.

I would like to have Hermes AI assist me as much as possible. Thank you for your reply.

Hi,

Good news—Hermes Agent is actually capable of doing what you want. It has a built-in terminal, cron scheduling, web search, and cross-conversation memory, so you are on the right track.

Installing yfinance

The "ensurepip is not available" error you encountered is because the way packages are installed in the container is different. You can ask Hermes to install it for you directly in the chat box, like this:

"Please execute this command in the terminal to help me install yfinance: uv pip install yfinance --python $HOME/.hermes/hermes-agent/venv/bin/python"

If uv doesn't work, you can also ask it to try:

"Please execute: $HOME/.hermes/hermes-agent/venv/bin/pip install yfinance"

Setting up a daily stock task

Once installed, you can use natural language to ask Hermes to do it for you:

• "Write a Python script to fetch stock price data for TSLA, AAPL, and 2330.TW (TSMC) using yfinance, and save it to ~/.hermes/tools/stock_fetch.py"
• "Create a cron job named 'Daily Stock Report' to execute that script every weekday at 9 AM and summarize the results for me."

Taiwan stock codes use the format StockCode.TW, for example, 2330.TW (TSMC) or 2317.TW (Foxconn).

Note on token consumption

You mentioned that you consumed a large amount of tokens on your first try—it is recommended to start testing with 2-3 stocks first to ensure the consumption is within an acceptable range before expanding. Having Hermes summarize only the key figures (instead of the entire page content) after fetching the data can significantly reduce token usage.

Feel free to reply if you have any questions.