Import prices API
Bengt Thuree
bengt at thuree.com
Sat Apr 7 10:00:02 EDT 2007
Perhaps import history data ?
Or data that F::Q is not handling? I have a few of those myself...
/Bengt
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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