Re: [GNC] Revisiting Quotes (Bruce Schuck)

2023-05-30 Thread Kalpesh Patel
: 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,

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

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

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

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

[GNC] Revisiting Quotes

2023-05-25 Thread R Losey
>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. Thanks! -- _ Richard Losey rlo...@gmail.com Micah 6:8