[GNC] Revisiting Quotes (Bruce Schuck)

[Bruce Schuck]

On 5/29/23 7:41 PM, Colin Arndt wrote:

> Thanks for all your work to keep up this past month. The latest 1.56
>  update fixes price retrieval within GnuCash.

>> This means modules will need to be rewritten to parse the HTML.
>> Doable, but not as simple as parsing JSON.

> There is an excellent python module ‘yfinance’ which does exactly
> this - scrapes price data from Yahoo!’s website. This might not be of
> any use because it’s written in python instead of Perl, but
> nonetheless wanted to make sure you’re aware of it.

Colin,

While I would confirm if the Python source is grabbing the normal web 
page or the API calls we use(d) in F::Q, this did give me the idea to 
search CPAN. I found the module Yahoo::Finance which may also be a good 
start and possibly does the heavy lifting already.

Thanks a bunch for the info!

Bruce S.