Stocks/get prices

This document explains how to import historic stock quotes into gnucash

Some knowledge of perl and python is required, adding a sample stock to Gnucash is explained here Add stock to portfolio. The first thing is to get historic stock prices. This is done with the perl module QuoteHist. A sample perl script to get quotes is e.g.:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use Finance::QuoteHist;
print "Will get stock quotes of $ARGV[0] and save it into the file $ARGV[0]\n";
$fname = $ARGV[0];
   open (MYFILE, ">$fname");
   $q = Finance::QuoteHist->new
      (
       symbols    => [($ARGV[0])],
       start_date => '01/01/2000',
       end_date   => 'today',
      ); 


print "name,date, open, high, low, close, volume\n";
foreach $row ($q->quotes()) {
       ($name,$date, $open, $high, $low, $close, $volume) = @$row;
       print MYFILE "$name,$date, $open, $high, $low, $close, $volume\n";
   }

close(MYFILE);

On Unix/Linux save the text into a file (e.g. get_quotes) , do a chmod a+x and execute it with the argument INTC to get the Intel prices saved into the file INTC

chmod a+x get_quotes
./get_quotes INTC

The INTC file should look similar to this:

INTC,2000/01/03, 83.2700, 87.3700, 83.2500, 87.0000, 57710200
INTC,2000/01/04, 85.4400, 87.8700, 82.2500, 82.9400, 51019600
INTC,2000/01/05, 83.0000, 85.8700, 80.5000, 83.6200, 52389000

and so on

from gnucash import Session, Account, Split
import gnucash
import datetime
from fractions import Fraction

# Function definition from Christoph Holtermann
def FindAccount(account,name,account_list=None):
  """Searches full names of account and descendents

  returns a list of accounts which contain name."""

  if not account_list:
    account_list=[]

  for child in account.get_children():
     child=Account(instance=child)
     account_list=FindAccount(child,name,account_list)
  
  Account_name=account.GetName()
  if name in Account_name:
    account_list.append(account)
  
  return account_list

FILE = "./test.gnucash"
url = "xml://"+FILE

# Read data from file
f = open('INTC')
data = []
while 1:
    tmp = f.readline()
    if(len(tmp)<2):
        break
    
    data.append(tmp)

f.close()

stock_date = []
stock_price = []
for i in range(1,len(data)):
    year = int(data[i].rsplit(',')[1].rsplit('/')[0])
    month = int(data[i].rsplit(',')[1].rsplit('/')[1])
    day = int(data[i].rsplit(',')[1].rsplit('/')[2])
    stock_date.append(datetime.datetime(year,month,day))
    stock_price.append(float(data[i].rsplit(',')[5]))

# Initialize Gnucash session
session = Session(url, True, False, False)
root = session.book.get_root_account()
book = session.book
account = book.get_root_account()
pdb = book.get_price_db()
comm_table = book.get_table()
ac = FindAccount(account,'Intel')[0] 

stock = ac.GetCommodity()
# Add the prices
pdb = book.get_price_db()
if len(ac.GetSplitList())<1:
  print 'Need at least one Split to get currency info ... '
cur = Split(instance=ac.GetSplitList()[0]).GetParent().GetCurrency()

# Get stock data
pl = pdb.get_prices(stock,cur)
if len(pl)<1:
  print 'Need at least one database entry to clone ...'

pl0 = pl[0]
for i in range(1,len(pl)):
  pdb.remove_price(pl[i])

for i in range(0,len(stock_date)):
  p_new = pl0.clone(book)
  p_new = gnucash.GncPrice(instance=p_new)
  print 'Adding',i,stock_date[i],stock_price[i]
  p_new.set_time(stock_date[i])
  v = p_new.get_value()
  v.num = int(Fraction.from_float(stock_price[i]).limit_denominator(100000).numerator)
  v.denom = int(Fraction.from_float(stock_price[i]).limit_denominator(100000).denominator)
  p_new.set_value(v)
  pdb.add_price(p_new)

# Clean up
session.save()
session.end()
session.destroy()

You have now a nice stock quotes from Intel in your Gnucash file!