GNUCash and Google Finance

[Colin Law]

On 4 February 2014 04:22, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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> On Feb 3, 2014, at 7:47 PM, Adam Spacey <adam.spacey at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hopefully not off topic and maybe on the distant horizon..
>>
>> I use Google to track a modest share portfolio - it's simple to set up and
>> quick. I also track the same share portfolio in GnuCash, which is the more
>> accurate of the two because GnuCash is tracking my real data; dividends,
>> broker account cash balance, broker fees, etc, and gets reconciled with
>> statements.
>>
>> What's nice in Google Finance is the visual display - the 'annotated time
>> line' chart which is available here
>> https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/gallery/annotatedtimeline#Overview
>>
>> So I'd thought about exporting data from various GnuCash investment type
>> accounts, or the advanced portfolio report, into a Google Finance type
>> chart, but lack the skills to do that!!
>>
>
> Looks like not: https://developers.google.com/finance/ says
>
> "The Google Finance APIs are no longer available. Thank you for your interest."
>
> Aside: Everyone's all hopped up about how online applications are going to kill "real" computers, and that the Chromebook and its ilk are the future. As long as the online folks can't keep anything around for more than a couple of years, that's just not going to happen.

However an online interface directly into GC would be fantastic.
I think the database stuff would have to be completed first though.

Colin