GnuCash price database management (alternative to --add-price-quotes).
Incrementally retrieves prices for securities that don't have already have a price for the current date. This can be adjusted with an offset so that it only retries securities with outdated prices, which is useful for securities that provide prices late or when price retrieval may have failed.
Check that prices for all securities for the previous day exist, and report those that don't have prices. This makes it possible to identify when one or more lookups are failing.
GnuCash likes to automatically add user:* prices based on transaction exchange rates. These can't be disabled and would prevent prices being retrieved or stored for the same date. Use --remove-user-currency-prices and --remove-user-commodity-prices to automatically get rid of these.
Prices manually added (user:price-editor) will be not be removed.
Run the "check" process in the morning to check the previous day's prices exist:
? 5 * * * cronty .../gnucash-prices.py -c -f ...Run the "update" process in the evening to get today's prices:
? 18 * * * cronty .../gnucash-prices.py -u -f ...
? 21 * * * cronty .../gnucash-prices.py -u -f ...Run the "update" process overnight to get yesterday's prices:
? 2 * * * cronty .../gnucash-prices.py -u -o 1 -f ...
? 4 * * * cronty .../gnucash-prices.py -u -o 1 -f ...You can set the base currency with -b XXX if the wrong one is detected.