http://bc-bd.org » gnucash http://bc-bd.org/blog this is not a blog Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:06:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 GnuCash and Finance::Quote http://bc-bd.org/blog/gnucash/gnucash-and-financequote/ http://bc-bd.org/blog/gnucash/gnucash-and-financequote/#comments Sun, 03 Dec 2006 18:00:23 +0000 bd http://bc-bd.org/blog/?p=56 Some time ago I decided to give GnuCash a chance with regard to managing my finances.

It took some time reading manuals and howtos to understand the priciple behind it but after a short while I was able to manage all my money related concerns with it.

I wanted to take it to the next level and entered my stock purchaches. So far so good but Finance::Quote – a perl module written to access online stock information – did not want to work as documented. To cut a long story short I was using the wrong name for my stock and this is how I found the right one:

  1. Search with the stock’s ISIN (I found it one the contract I had with my broker) on Yahoo Finance
  2. Look for a link called something like “stock exchange price”
  3. Use the value of a parameter called ’s’ from the url as symbol name in GnuCash
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