Finance::QuoteHist with GnuCash?

[Mike Alexander]

--On August 7, 2013 7:32:58 AM -0700 rsbrux <rsbrux at yahoo.com> wrote:

> While researching how to update Finance::Quotes, I came across
> Finance::QuoteHist
> <http://www.mojotoad.com/sisk/projects/Finance-QuoteHist/>  , which is
> available in both the Ubuntu repository and  on CPAN
> <http://search.cpan.org/dist/Finance-QuoteHist/>
> This thread
> <http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/Price-Quotes-td1415854.html>
> from 2005 describes an attempt to integrate F::QH seamlessly with GC
> by modifying "finance-quote-helper" (which seems to have meanwhile
> become
> "gnc-fq-helper") but the attempt appears to have been abandoned.
> This  wiki page <http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Stocks/get_prices>
> from 2011 describes a method of manually importing data from  F::QH
> into GC, but as someone lacking the "knowledge of perl and python"
> mentioned, it seems quite cumbersome to me.
> As someone with accounts in different currencies and based on my
> previous experience with Quicken, I thought that it would be helpful
> to have a complete set of historical quotes, in particular for net
> worth reports and currency conversions.
> Has anyone gone any further with this?
> If not, are there reasons why it might not be as desirable as it
> seems at first blush, e.g. blowing up the size of the GC file?

Sorry for the delay replying, I've been out of town.

Which version of GnuCash were you using?  I checked in a change back in 
February which allows gnc-fq-helper to optionally return a list of 
results rather than a single result.  This change is in the 2.5 
unstable releases since then and might allow this perl script to work 
as a replacement for gnc-fq-helper.

           Mike