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getquote
Advanced tools
A ledger-cli getquote implementation using the free IEX Cloud API.
Create a free IEX Cloud API account.
Verify your account and generate API tokens.
Install getquote:
pip3 install getquote --prefix /usr/local
Create a getquote.ini config file in your ledger directory.
[IEX]
TOKEN = <your publishable IEX API token here>
IEX_TOKEN environment variable.export IEX_TOKEN=pk_deadbeefdeadbeefdeadbeefdeadbeef
Test
$ getquote GOOG
2020/08/30 09:56:54-0400 GOOG $1644.41
pip install twine
./setup.py sdist
twine upload dist/getquote-*.tar.gz
FAQs
A ledger-cli getquote implementation using free IEX Cloud API
We found that getquote demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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