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

[sunfish62 at yahoo.com]

You can import prices as an option on the File->Import menu. 

It is relatively easy (for example) to create a spreadsheet in Google which has live price lookups, which can then be used to import prices into GnuCash. 

I don't know whether other spreadsheet apps have the same price lookup functions or not.

I agree with David C., though. It seems like a lot of work for a minor gain in storage.  Perhaps you could explain why you want this? 

⁣David T. ​

On Jun 6, 2025, 6:14 AM, at 6:14 AM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
>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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