Import prices API

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Bengt Thuree <bengt at thuree.com>:

> Perhaps import history data ?

There's a historical-data F::Q backend out there somewhere, IIRC.

> Or data that F::Q is not handling? I have a few of those myself...

Then write an F::Q backend for that and I'm sure that David will
include it in the next F::Q release.

> /Bengt

-derek

> On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 09:35 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> GnuCash calls the gnc-fq-helper application to get quotes.  You could
>> replace that program with any other program you want to return quotes
>> back to Gnucash.  Run the program by hand if you want to see the
>> format of the returned data.
>>
>> I dont know if it expects to get one quote at a time or gets all quotes
>> in one run.
>>
>> There's also the scheme API (and I API) you could use if you wanted to
>> write code to install quotes.
>>
>> Also, F::Q itself has an API; it's a plugin architecture so you could plug
>> in your own module.
>>
>> But I have to ask:   why would you want to NOT use F::Q?
>>
>> -derek
>>
>> Quoting nospamforas <nospamforas at gmx.net>:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > gnucash imports prices using Finance::Quote. I don't want to use it.
>> >
>> > Suppose I got the quotes in some other way from somewhere and have
>> > them stored
>> > in a datastore, e.g. a file. It would be very nice, if I could import them
>> > without Finance::Quote.
>> >
>> > I would prefer to have an API, so that one can switch the implementation
>> > (program, application) from Finance::Quote to something other.
>> >
>> > It might help, if someone could describe the current interface to
>> > Finance::Quote.
>> >
>> > - AS
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