On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 8:22 PM Justus Pendleton <justu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thursday, November 21, 2019 at 8:36:16 PM UTC+7, nug get wrote: >> >> then Gnucash and going for beancount now, with an account history of about 3 >> years. > > > Out of curiosity, why would you switch from gnucash to beancount? > > I think the reality is that beancount is implicitly targeting a very niche > set of users (probably why traffic on this mailing list is so slow!) -- and > I'm not sure unix-newbies is that niche. All of the issues you run into are > why people often decide to pay for software instead. > > That said, you're right that the bean-price document is woefully out of date > with its references to defunct sources. A while back (two years?) both Yahoo > and Google killed their APIs. Eventually Martin rewrote the Yahoo one but > AFAIK the Google one is still dead. But the documentation hasn't really been > updated to account for that. I'm actually not sure how one goes about > updating the documentation these days?
Become a trusted contributor by sending a few patches (you are). Click on the Request Edit Permissions button (or something like that) at the top right. Wait & Edit in your web browser. Voila! > But price fetching is always going to be the most brittle part of beancount. > Virtually all providers have switched away from providing easy, free APIs for > fetching stock quotes over the past 5-10 years. You need to sign up to a > service and (often) pay money. :( True. In the next major version (you know, the one I keep talking about that will probably only happen between the big gap I'll take between my current job and the next or when the machine learning wave takes a breather and I can stop running for a bit) I'll probably remove it entirely and just keep an interface and some utility functions that process the Beancount ledger and enumerate lists of dates and commodities that require updating, i.e. just pool together all the utilities that are common/useful for someone writing a price fetcher. At this stage I'm sure other people will indulge and write separate projects to maintain various price fetchers they need. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Beancount" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/22ff918e-cfb7-4708-9fa3-c60a7e8d3077%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAK21%2BhM%2Bg8mu%3DL%3DPNm%3DStwvrpzLVv5H5bHnKkmXdQBB7oQymKg%40mail.gmail.com.
