Grab historical stock prices from Yahoo Finance and output in Ledger CLI format.
Install the Firefox Selenium web driver (instructions here).
Create a Python 3 virtual environment, activate it,
and install the packages from requirements.txt.
Create a text file named .config at the repository root,
and include any stock symbols you'd like to get price information for.
Institution and account names will be included in the output
to group the returned information (as shown below).
To execute the script run python main.py 2023-05-10 -v.
The verbose flag is optional, though useful
if there are many symbols to process (to interactively view progress).
The output is saved in an output.txt file by default.
Example .config file:
Institution:
AccountName:
- AAPL
- MSFT
- AMZN
- GOOGL
- FB
The generated output.txt:
; Institution
; AccountName
P 2023/05/10 AAPL USD 173.56
P 2023/05/10 MSFT USD 312.31
P 2023/05/10 AMZN USD 110.19
P 2023/05/10 GOOGL USD 111.75
P 2023/05/10 FB USD 233.08