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sdementen / piecash

Pythonic interface to GnuCash SQL documents
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replace 'yahoo-finance' #32

Closed sdementen closed 4 years ago

sdementen commented 7 years ago

The yahoo-finance package relied on a non-official API from yahoo that got discontinued on 2017-11-01. See how to replace it by http://alpha-vantage.readthedocs.io/

rerobins commented 6 years ago

Please don't use the alpha-vantage python library. It requires pandas to do data analysis which is not needed to fetch data.

sdementen commented 6 years ago

You do not want to have a dependency on pandas if I understand correctly ;-) I agree it is a bit heavy but for my personal curiosity, could you tell me the pains you have with installing pandas? Could it be an option to work upstream with the alpha vantage python module to remove it (or make it optional)? Or should we just call the API with requests in piecash ?

rerobins commented 6 years ago

Correct.

I think it may just be easier to implement the functionality you want with requests. The alphavantage library is used to do analysis on the data, noy provide access.

I wrote something similar last night and its only about 10 lines to fetch stock/fund prices.

sdementen commented 6 years ago

Indeed. If you want to have a try at the implementation of this feature, do not hesitate !

sdementen commented 4 years ago

Close as other project already provided the feature https://github.com/belidzs/gnucash_quotes