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 <[email protected]> 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 > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > -- David Carlson _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
