Tool for getting stock prices of my current portfolio. It produces output appropriate for the ledger-cli tool that I use to track my finances. Certainly this tool is for my own use.

Symbols to fetch and places to fetch them are set in a config file.

Put the name of your config file in the GETPRICES_FILE environment variable. If this is not set then the tool looks for ${HOME}/.portfoliorc and if it finds nothing there then it errors out.

The format of the file is as follows.

Empty lines or those with '#' at the first character are ignored.

All other lines must be commodity lines. One commodity line has the format:

[YAHOO|VANGUARD|QUANDL|BLOOMBERG] [^ ]+

That is, the start of the line must match the keys of a map given in the file /fetcher/fetcher.go which currently is YAHOO, VANGUARD, QUANDL or BLOOMBERG. This is followed by a single space character and a single ticker identifier which is anything that is not a space character. If there is a space after the ticker identifier then the space is ignored along with everything on the line after it.

The first token is referred to in the code as a broker which is not a good name: a better name would be something like PriceProvider because this token tells the fetcher code which method to use to get the price of the given ticker identifier. YAHOO means to use the API at finance.yahoo.com to get prices of commodities that are traded on the ASX. VANGUARD means to scrape the vanguardinvestments.com.au site to get the price of their index fund (which is not traded on the ASX). QUANDL means to use the commodities API provided by Quandl. BLOOMBERG means to scrape the Bloomberg site.