Bruce - The Python3 yahoo_fin module code installed on my instance looks at "https://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v8/finance/chart/"; URI while Python2.7 yahoofinance module code installed on my instance looks at "https://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v7/finance/download/{i}"; URI with routine to grab the crumbs. Reading things around I came across https://metacpan.org/dist/Finance-QuoteHist/source/lib/Finance/QuoteHist/Yahoo.pm which I believe has the best explanation and the corresponding Perl code to extract them dynamically.
I have a web scraping perl module that provides 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 <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2023 12:24 AM To: Colin Arndt <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [GNC] Revisiting Quotes (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 module ‘yfinance’ which does exactly this > - scrapes price data from Yahoo!’s website. This might not be of any > use because it’s written in python instead of Perl, but nonetheless > wanted to make sure you’re aware of it. Colin, While I would confirm if the Python source is grabbing the normal web page 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. Thanks a bunch for the info! Bruce S. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
