I'm one of the silent ones:
I read the report with some interest, but I've had so many issues with
having GnuCash get prices that I just don't bother anymore. I just allow it
to update as I do transactions in accounts... and there are ways to look at
price history online.
The only other reason I
I found this information extremely enlightening. I didn't know that
there was a capability to use Google's capabilities to make a
spreadsheet and automatically include pricing data. It's as if Libre
Office Calc or Excel had an inbuilt function to retrieve pricing info.
Very useful information.
d) silently read, comprehended, bookmarked, and filed away for possible
future use.
Thanks for the contribution, keep them coming :--))
Geoff
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On 14/04/2024 3:50 pm, sunfish62--- via gnucash-user wrote:
David,
My goal in the example was not pedagogical; it was to give others in the
David,
My goal in the example was not pedagogical; it was to give others in the
community information that they might use for themselves. I'm pretty sure that
in the earlier thread, I gave all the information necessary (including actual
cell formulae) for others to test it for themselves. If
David T,
Nice, but I am told pedagogy suggests even the best explanations are best
packaged with examples, like on a nice web page. In fact, the Finance Quote
process itself might be divided into three processes: a gnucash call to extract
the symbols and sources as a CSV, a web scraper
Several years back, I sent this in to the list:
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2018-August/079430.html
Pretty sure it still works.
David T.
On Apr 12, 2024, 10:02 PM, at 10:02 PM, "David G. Pickett via gnucash-user"
wrote:
>Not all users know that the nice table of your
+fromvendor=outtacyte@gnucash.org] On Behalf Of
David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2024 2:01 PM
To: Gnucash Users
Subject: [GNC] FYI Web tables, CSV, prices info and inquiry
Not all users know that the nice table of your stocks and prices that you see
on so many web sites
Not all users know that the nice table of your stocks and prices that you see
on so many web sites like my morningstar portfolio can be selected and pasted
into a spreadsheet like Excel, Google Sheets, or LibreOffice Calc, maybe not
perfectly, but so it is easy to turn them into a clean
