belidzs / gnucash_quotes

Download stock and currency quotes from Alpha Vantage and save it to GnuCash

Alpha Vantage to GnuCash quote downloader

This script can import daily stock and forex quotes from Alpha Vantage and insert them into GnuCash's database.

Features

• Connect to any type of GnuCash data source supported by piecash (*.gnucash files, relational databases, plain XML, etc)
• It can run even without GnuCash installed
• Automatic throttling to avoid over-polling
• Ignores price if it was already downloaded that day

Requirements

• Python 3
• piecash
• alpha-vantage
• python-dateutil

Install requirements

Just run pip install -r requirements.txt

It is recommended to install dependencies inside a dedicated virtualenv.

Usage

Edit script to set up

• Alpha Vantage API key
• Connection parameters
• Namespace - currency pairs

Run: python gnucash_quotes.pty