[GNC] gnucash prices with Yahoo

[Geoff]

Greetings James Baxter from Atlanta Georgia

I have just returned from a relaxing holiday in the countryside, and so 
I am a little delayed on our correspondence.  As David Carlson advised 
you yesterday, please always use the following email address when you 
have GnuCash questions:-

gnucash-user at gnucash.org

And when you do this you will receive lots of answers from the many 
helpful people in GnuCash Land.  Indeed, for your previous two questions 
where you did this, I can see that David has sent you 4 replies, and 
Murugan, Richard, and John have also each sent you a reply.  Isn't that 
wonderful?  All these people that you have never met are volunteering 
their time and wisdom to try and help you out!


Now to your question about obtaining stock prices from Yahoo Finance:-

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AMZN

The answer is YES, this is very easy to do with GnuCash.

Of course you have to create your Security, and link it to an Account. 
I know that you have already done this for AMZN, but you might like to 
review the necessary steps here:-

https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Stocks/add_stock

Then, for each of your Securities, you need to specify Yahoo Finance as 
the source for stock prices:-

1. Tools / Security Editor / Edit / Select "Yahoo as JSON" / OK

Finally, you need to ask GnuCash to obtain the current stock prices:-

2. Tools / Price Database / Get Quotes


I have attached a screenshot showing you how to do steps 1 and 2.

Regards

Geoff
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On 12/11/2022 7:19 am, James Baxter wrote:
> Geoff,
> Sir. As I hope I am not doing the wrong thing. I place an item in 
> Gnucash asking for how to get stock prices through Yahoo.
> (i think it was Larry) gave me Gnucash 5.4.2 as I was just looking it 
> over. Also running a few items through Lunix. As I am running Linux 
> Mint. Yahoo is showing up with how many places. Google is not showing.
> 
> So I am looking to see in Gnucash where to add this (what ever) to 
> Gnucash. I don't know if Linux has a thing to do with this, as I maybe 
> wrong. I am asking you, Because you showed me by using screen shots, As 
> I thank you very much for doing that.
> 
> thanks
> James Baxter
> I am in Atlanta GA if you wish to know
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