hledger-prices

A CLI utility to obtain given stock prices and currency exchange rates from the Alpha Vantage API, and print them out in hledger’s price format.

Installation

With Go:

$ go install github.com/bnjmnt4n/hledger-prices@latest

For Nix users:

$ nix run github:bnjmnt4n/hledger-prices

Usage

$ hledger-prices -alphavantage-key $ALPHA_VANTAGE_KEY -base-currency SGD -currencies USD,ETH -stocks VT,VWRA.LON -rate-limit 5
; Generated by https://github.com/bnjmnt4n/hledger-prices on 2023/01/06 22:20:24

; Stocks

P 2023/01/05 VT USD 86.400000
P 2023/01/05 VWRA USD 96.930000

; Currencies

P 2023/01/06 ETH SGD 1682.684934
P 2023/01/06 USD SGD 1.344500

This command will get the most recent exchange rates between SGD/USD and SGD/ETH and stock prices of VT and VWRA (in the London exchange), with a rate limit of 5 requests per minute.

Note:

• only the records for the most recent day are fetched.
• the following APIs are used: stock latest price, stock search endpoint and currency exchange.