[GNC] Security pricing sources

[Murugan Muruganandam]

hi Kalpesh

Yahoo JSON is still working in V6 (refer my earlier email)

if you want to custom build a source, it is very much possible. please follow the steps below


Create your own code and name it appropriately (eg yahooscrap.pm)

  1.  Place the  file yahooscrap.pm inside the  following folder

Linux depends on the way it was installed: by package manager:

 /usr/share/perl5/[vendor/]Finance/Quote by CPAN or gnc-fq-update: /usr/share/perl5/site/Finance/Quote self compiled: /usr/local/share/perl/5.xx.x/Finance

Windows:

C:\Strawberry\perl\site\lib\Finance\Quote

macOS: /Library/Perl/5.xx/Finance/Quote where xx depends on the version of perl in use when you installed Finance::Quote. macOS upgrades may require reinstallation of Finance::Quote because older version directories are not included in @INC.

  1.  To make your file accessible following file needs to be edited to include the line "yahooscrap"

Windows: C:\Strawberry\perl\site\lib\Finance\Quote.pm

add yahooscrap inside the modules block

@MODULES =



Now go to security editor and use unknown as type of quote source and yahooscrap will be visible to be picked up. Save and now run the get quote




Saludos Cordiales


Murugan

________________________________
From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+m.muruganandam=hotmail.com at gnucash.org> on behalf of Kalpesh Patel <kalpesh.patel at usa.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2023 6:01 PM
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: [GNC] Security pricing sources

As most of you know yahoo_json has gone broken which IMHO was really the
only free source for people like me who just needed end-of-day prices. While
I've gotten around to it with able to gather the data via custom Python
script and import it in, I like to directly integrate and interface with the
GNC to pull prices from the web scraping Yahoo. I noticed that there is not
a "custom" source I can specify for price download, in additional to many of
them greyed out (Vanguard source would have been great as quite a number of
mutual funds I track are with them).  So two question, how easy is it for
someone who is somewhat familiar with programming to directly wire-up and
interface with it and how can the greyed out sources be enabled? I am on
Windows 11 with 4.14 GNC but willing to tackle on 5.x version.



Thanks.

_______________________________________________
gnucash-user mailing list
gnucash-user at gnucash.org
To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe:
https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
-----
Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.