Re: Get stock quotes for specified date

2016-12-10 Thread John Ralls
> On Dec 10, 2016, at 3:05 AM, Stefan Söffing wrote: > > John, David, > > that's indeed the script I had in mind. Obviously it was too late when I > wrote this so not only did I forget to include the link, but also did not > notice the subtle difference between Finance::QuoteHist and Finance:

Re: Get stock quotes for specified date

2016-12-10 Thread Stefan Söffing
John, David, that's indeed the script I had in mind. Obviously it was too late when I wrote this so not only did I forget to include the link, but also did not notice the subtle difference between Finance::QuoteHist and Finance::Quote. I understand that QuoteHist is more limited in most respects c

Re: Get stock quotes for specified date

2016-12-09 Thread David T. via gnucash-devel
John, It may be that Stefan refers to https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Stocks/get_prices . As you note, it uses Finance::QuoteHist instead of F::Q. Finance::QuoteHist does still work with the sources you mention, although I cannot comment about the

Re: Get stock quotes for specified date

2016-12-09 Thread John Ralls
> On Dec 9, 2016, at 1:30 PM, Stefan Söffing wrote: > > All, > > the price editor currently is able to retrieve today's stock quote for > the price db. Sometimes it can be useful to retrieve stock quotes for a > specified historic date, e.g. to update the prices for the last day of > the financ