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

[Kalpesh Patel]

Make sure you have installed necessary pre-requisites (Perl and Finance::Quote module) in order for it to work.

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Clay <mpclay at gmail.com> 
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2025 10:24 PM
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: [GNC] Retrieving Quotes for Specific Securities without Toggling 'Get Online Quotes'

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