Downloading quotes

[Benjamin So]

Hi Linas,

Thanks for the tip. I'm glad that there is a workaround. Having said 
that, I'm not quite sure how to go about doing this. Could you offer a 
bit more guidance? Currently I'm having a bit of trouble getting past 
Step 1.

Ben

On 27 Jul 2004, at 15:11, Linas Vepstas wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 12:20:44AM +1200, Ben was heard to remark:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I'm just starting out with GnuCash, and now have all my data
>> entered. What I'd like to do now is to get automatic updates
>> of securities in my portfolio. This works for shares listed
>> on major exchanges, but I can't get it working for a couple
>> of managed funds, run by two separate European banks.
>>
>> I asked one of the banks the information for one of the
>> funds in question, and got a TK Valor Number of 956265 and
>> an ISIN of BE0169006328. How am I supposed to input these
>> data into GnuCash?
>
> If the data sources aren't already in gnucash, then there's no easy 
> way.
>
> You'd have to do the following:
> 1) find a website that offers the data
> 2) add to the perl module Finance::Quote to go to that website(s)
> 3) update the gnucash menus to dsiplay the new finance::quote module(s)
>    as a possible data source.
>
> --linas
>
>
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