[GNC] FYI Web tables, CSV, prices info and inquiry

[David G. Pickett]

 David T,
Nice, but I am told pedagogy suggests even the best explanations are best packaged with examples, like on a nice web page.  In fact, the Finance Quote process itself might be divided into three processes: a gnucash call to extract the symbols and sources as a CSV, a web scraper process to convert the input CSV to an output CSV, and a second gnucash call to accept that CSV and update/insert the prices database.  It might make testing simpler, too!

One wonders what the update versus insert policy is.  Buy and sell transactions create price info, often of low precision intraday pricing, as if you are buying a 4 digit precise $98.76 stock for a $1.23 dividend, the apparent price might be $99.19 for 0.0124 shares. If there are multiple entries for a symbol and date, one must win out when I do net worth line graph with table report using price nearest date to report?  (Also amazing: that is not the default!)
Thanks,
David P
    On Friday, April 12, 2024 at 05:20:25 PM EDT, sunfish62 at yahoo.com <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:  
 
 Several years back, I sent this in to the list:
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2018-August/079430.html

Pretty sure it still works. 

David T. On Apr 12, 2024, at 10:02 PM, "David G. Pickett via gnucash-user" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
Not all users know that the nice table of your stocks and prices that you see on so many web sites like my morningstar portfolio can be selected and pasted into a spreadsheet like Excel, Google Sheets, or LibreOffice Calc, maybe not perfectly, but so it is easy to turn them into a clean spreadsheet table.  My Morningstar did something weird with the first column but it was all there and not too hard to cut and paste or paste-special it into a nice table.  Then you have the option of saving it as a CSV file (Comma Separated Value), which loses any funny formatting and hypertext links and is maybe gnucash friendly.

It would be a bit of an emergency, and I could do this one stock at a time, but importing this CSV to gnucash prices would be a nice backup.  I have not done the research or reading above to know how to import such a table into gnucash prices.  Can someone give a simple how-to?  Do I need a date column?  A column to say it is nav or close?  Is there a web page help on this?

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