Re: [GNC] Revisiting Quotes (Bruce Schuck)

2023-05-30 Thread Kalpesh Patel
vides EOD price only. Would there be any interest in reviewing it? That is what I put together for myself as an interim F::Q that does not rely on any yahoo API. -Original Message- From: Bruce Schuck Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2023 12:24 AM To: Colin Arndt Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.o

Re: [GNC] Revisiting Quotes (Bruce Schuck)

2023-05-29 Thread Bruce Schuck
While I would confirm if the Python source is grabbing the normal webpage or the API calls we use(d) in F::Q, this did give me the idea to search CPAN. I found the module Yahoo::Finance which may also be a good start and possibly does the heavy lifting already. Colin, The Yahoo::Finance Perl m

Re: [GNC] Revisiting Quotes (Bruce Schuck)

2023-05-29 Thread Bruce Schuck
On 5/29/23 7:41 PM, Colin Arndt wrote: Thanks for all your work to keep up this past month. The latest 1.56 update fixes price retrieval within GnuCash. This means modules will need to be rewritten to parse the HTML. Doable, but not as simple as parsing JSON. There is an excellent python

Re: [GNC] Revisiting Quotes

2023-05-29 Thread Tom Teixeira
A way to bypass Finance::Quote is to create a .csv file with price quotes and import that. It turns out that several commercial spreadsheet packages have the ability to look up stock prices and don't seem to charge extra or to limit query rates. I've tried this with Microsoft Excel, Apple Numbe

Re: [GNC] Revisiting Quotes (Bruce Schuck)

2023-05-29 Thread Colin Arndt
Hi Bruce, Thanks for all your work to keep up this past month. The latest 1.56 update fixes price retrieval within GnuCash. > This means modules will need to be rewritten to parse the HTML. Doable, > but not as simple as parsing JSON. There is an excellent python module ‘yfinance’ which does e

Re: [GNC] Revisiting Quotes

2023-05-29 Thread Bruce Schuck
On Thu May 25, 2023 at 14:59:14 EDT R Losey wrote: From the discussion here, one would get the idea that the only two options for quotes are Alphavantage and Yahoo/JSON... don't the other options work? I seem to remember seeing a very long list of options. Most of the other modules retrieve dat