gnucash, Finance:Quote, and own module

[Klaus Dahlke]

On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 00:27:30 -0500
David Hampton <hampton-gnucash at rainbolthampton.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 23:04 +0100, Klaus Dahlke wrote:
> 
> > after having trouble with VWD.pm from the recent Finance:Quote
> module, 
> 
> There was an updated VWD.pm module posted on the Finance::Quote mailing
> list a couple of weeks ago.  I haven't committed it yet to CVS because
> I've been focusing on gnucash.  From the poster's comments, the problem
> was the advertising on the site.
> 
Hi David,
Thanks for the hint. I downloaded the recent version from http://www.minet.uni-jena.de/~joergs/ and it works basically okay (still two of my fonds produce errors as the layout of the search result for these two fonds differs from the layout for other searches).

> > I wrote a small own module for Finance::Quote where I collect the
> quotes 
> > from other sources (like the price pages from the respective fond
> companies). 
> > The module is called Custom.pm, located in the same directory as the
> other 
> > modules for Finance::Quote, and after 'export FQ_LOAD_QUOTELET=Custom'
> the 
> > command 'perl stockdump.pl custom xxxxx' produces the desired result. 
> 
> Could you clean this up and sumbit it to the F::Q site on sourceforge?
> Other users might use the same fund companies.
> 

Will see what I can do. I am not a good programmer and have difficulties to get HtmlTableExtract working. So it is is pretty tailored solution for my private needs. I will play around with HtmlTableExtract to see whether I can get some re-usable coding.

Thanks and best regards,
Klaus