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redstreet / fava_investor

Comprehensive set of reports, analyses, and tools for investments, for Beancount and Fava (plain text, double entry accounting software). Includes Fava plugins, command line tools, and libraries for each module.
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does the module fetch prices from the web? #63

Closed cataclysmic closed 3 years ago

cataclysmic commented 3 years ago

I was under the impression that this module fetches commodity prices from Google, I guess.

However, when running the module without explicit price directives in the *.beancount file it fails and I get:

'''Error: unable to convert XXX LHA to base currency EUR (Missing price directive?) SystemExit raised: shutting down '''

A related issue, which might be more of a question for core beancount, is the capabity of conversion across several units. Personally I denote in EUR but some stocks, fonds, etc. are denoted in USD on the web. So I would need a conversion of commodity -> USD -> EUR.

PS: I love the module. Still not sure how to configure it all but I am getting there.

redstreet commented 3 years ago

Hi, You're probably looking for multi currency support, #32. It's there in master, but not yet released. See commit a8389b4. You can do a bleeding edge install to get this, see the README.

redstreet commented 3 years ago

Correct, price fetching is a vast endeavor by itself, and well outside the scope of this module. Use your favorite method to fetch and insert price entries.

cataclysmic commented 3 years ago

Thanks for the help. I will do a bleedind edge install. For price fetching a started using bean-price.

It's a great module!