[GNC] Retrieving Quotes for Specific Securities without Toggling 'Get Online Quotes'

[David Carlson]

The only concern that I can think of from having prices saved in your file
that you don't plan to use would be a somewhat inflated file size.  If your
usage pattern would benefit substantially from saving only a few prices
regularly, it might pay to gather the prices that you want externally then
importing them into manually into GnuCash in a csv file.



On Thu, Jun 5, 2025 at 9:24 PM Matthew Clay <mpclay at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear gnucash community,
>
> From what I can tell, using either the "Get Quotes" button in the Price
> Database or the command
>
> gnucash-cli --quotes get <file>.gnucash
>
> retrieves quotes for all securities that have the "Get Online Quotes"
> option enabled. Is it possible to update quotes for a subset of securities
> without having to toggle the "Get Online Quotes" for each one? Maybe
> something like
>
> gnucash-cli --quotes get <file>.gnucash AAPL AMZN
>
> to just get the quotes for Apple and Amazon, and nothing else.
>
> If this isn't possible, can quotes retrieved with commands like
>
> gnucash-cli --quotes dump yahooweb AAPL
>
> be saved to text files and later imported into a gnucash file?
>
> Thanks,
> Matthew
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David Carlson